Lo-Fi music
The soundtrack of my life
Cristiano Luchini
Curtis & Moore Italia - Publishing
Born in the mid-twenties, but exploded in recent months, Lo-Fi music is conquering an increasingly large slice of listeners, with numbers of global phenomenon.
Lo-Fi music has slow, melodic, haunting rhythms that produce a sense of calm, which is why lo-fi playlists are used around the world to study or relax, or perhaps even more so to seek a sense of calm from an intimidating present. Didactically, it's a music genre that was born in the mid-tens and spread almost entirely over the internet, amidst an initial lack of interest from the music industry so the phenomenon is created of artists with millions of paradoxically unheard of listens.
Slow sounds, nameless artists, melancholy, obsessive and hypnotic rhythms, obsession with the past; a sense of sonic stasis: the effect of these playlists is to participate in a mood, (Sebastian Kamae, Dutch producer, one of the main exponents of the genre, to refer to his tracks speaks of "mood") or to explore an emotional landscape.
Something warm, sweet and cozy that smells of calm, of isolation from the world, of home or refuge, and sprinkles the eardrums with amniotic fluid; everything in the logical opposite point to an accelerated mode. Everything, really everything, in lo-fi music conspires precisely to produce this feeling, like an alchemical formula.
If before, the past was an end, an aesthetic object (vintage, for example) here, nostalgia is conscious of its use and function. Like obsessive rhythms, the sound of rain, a certain imaginary kawaii, (which in English means "beautiful"), that is, its visual counterpart (the gif of the sad girl studying on a loop), like sad or romantic lyrics. In short, the past, like everything else, is a tool to create the atmosphere of the songs.
"Lo-Fi the soundtrack of my life" Seeks to uncover the hidden reasons behind the nostalgic beauty that permeates lo-fi music.
Chapter 1 What is Lo-Fi Music?
Chapter 3 Wabi Sabi and Imperfection
Chapter 4 Lo-Fi, Anime, and Nostalgia for the present
Chapter 5 Meditate with Lo-Fi Music
Chapter 6 How to make Lo-Fi Music
