EMC - General Rules

EMC (Euphonic Music Classification) has been made up the Author of EML for the following purposes:- use it as index of the Categories included in "Artistic Area";- provide users of a hierarchical system that lead them from the major movements in popular music donw to the  genres and subgenres passing through four different steps of classification;- have a database for discussion and discussion with external collaborators, artists and EML members;- starting from this base add, subtract or modify the entries of each level to make the classification as elastic and current as possible;- have a simple but substantial reference system, to be used for any type of research, both on the web and personal on music and musicians;- create lists and if possible do not rank;

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Currently this session can be defined as a personal Author's view , or a technical music-blog having contents daily updated about:

- genre classification;

- artists classification;

- artists' repertoires or works classification automatically;

- automatically redirection to web content related to what above listed ;

- awarded artists lists;

- unsigned artists lists and redirection to their web content;

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All the content in EMC session or in Artistic Area of ELL are synchronizable ad filterable by EMC Classification items. 

You can connect the results of the search to the related contents in web with the Automatic Media Results (autogenerated extenral links) of EMC Media., or with the precompiled list of extrernal links created by EML author(s);

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Isn't the classification into genres considered useless by many artists?

Yes.  We live definitely an age in which this process (the artists or works cataloguing) is considered as "old-fashioned" and accused to compress and reduce the values of the artist's expressions by the artists themselves and from many point of views in music industry and by the critics.

Artists are always less bound to the genres rules or to a single prototype of style intended as both: artists and producers's strategies.

This does not means that the "new world" does not need to classify artistic works.

The prove of this affermation is the impressive financial and intellectual effort to generate always more sophisticated informational retrieving and machine learning system, to automatically recognize music genres with the use of technological devices.

At least not for the Author's point of view. Mixing style, techniques, aesthetical genres rules, creating different part in the same tracks bridging totally different genres does not mean indisputably the creation of new genres.

Often this mean that a new kind of product is offered to the markets. Also hig quality products.

But this does not automatically involve the generation of new rules because most of these experiments ends with the tracks themselves or are used as personal artistic logo by the first one that used them or from some following less famous artists searching for the same success.

Creating a new genres means generate authoritatively and in a systemic way new aesthetic rules.

if not entirely new but not appliable to any previous style or genre and not a simple addition of rules or techniques within the same song.

However, it's out of doubt that almost all the contemporary artists of any kind of genres or origins are concentrated to create always new forms of expression or melting styles and genres them together to reach fresh and personalized styles that are hardly compressing or embedding in to an only classification "box"

And for the same reasons that it's impossible to find a city main route if you do not have a little path that lead you from the suburb, we (I) think that it's hard for the global music markets have a significant grow up tendency if the audience cannot impersonate themselves in to a specific semantic category of artists.

I said semantic because what is clear to anyone who follow the music market from outside, that the stronger message the artists carry and the higher are their success.

Music is not only a sound that you hear because it delights your hear.

Music is a constant in most of our lifes, that voluntarly or not modify not only our mood, but changes the approach to personal growth and interpersonal relationship.

If music genres and their being flags of our social set, interior disorder or order, needs of love or our rejecting it, of our standing besides or close to our the feeling , desperation, frustration, happiness, if this radical approach of the artists to the choice of owning or be owned by a genre , the music turn in to a joiful or sad background sound.

We can't  imagine a future in which audience know few about the services offered by the we media operators , or if they know almost nothing about the music market of our neighbouring country (as I observed in the knowing of French music in Italian people). And it's as many hard for a music lovers search in the web something that they doen't know.

The exciting successes of Afrobeat, Korean Pop, of Italian rock band Maneskin , are just some of the long list of proves that "countries" and "languages" are not anymore synonimous of "boundaries" for the audiences but they stil are for who do not let the audicence aware about the artists' from other's regions.

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For this and many other reasons that we will deep in the future, in EMC:

- genres have been layered in to hierachical sets or levels (if you don't believe that you are a blues rocker you can't believe you are inthe Rock Frame!);

- have been added new terms for defining new genres if have been analyzed sounds of different genres melted together by not just one or two artist, but from a collection of artists.

- some general and aspecific definitions as "indie" that are so well accepted and loved by artits here does not find space. At least in the supplementary definition (as Subgenres). EMC anayze and classify genres and artists on their sound features only and this must be clearly originated by some kind of rules. Also if melted. THe example of indie rock is one of the most significant because inside this definitions artist feel free to create and expres themselvs following a general approach to techniques or styles. Some may argue this affermatin saying that indie rock is a well defined genre of alternative rock. Other  may arguer that indie rock is an alternative to classic and alternative rock. A middle solution. All these positions are respectable but we do not want to create a taxonomy system, but just a way to search artists following the more used form of expression in their repertoire or that that have implied their more celebrated period of success. We want audience discover artists similar to the genres they love and not to define socialm cultural , political groups, or different approach to producing processes. Also if exist this Category, in in EML artist are not divided in autoproduced, signed, greatest,  supproting etc.. We can insert a new unsigned band of 16 years old average, next to the greatest rock band ever, if we think that this band has really created a new genre as that impresive musicians did a lot of year ago. This goal (or target, I am Italian pleas be gentle if I write not always correctly!) is not simple, but with the help of really honest and professional colalborators and of the artists themselves it is possible.

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Has the Authors used an existing structure to create EMC?
No. The Author didn't tried to emulate one system or another one.

He just tried to :

- collect more data and opinions as possible from digital and traditional media and extract a synthesis from all them;

- discover how could be possible to link five different world:  artists, industry, media, events (also if this is part of industry in EML is considered apart) and all the world that support the artists in their formation and activity (music school, organizations, instruments producers, tech-company, E-learning etc..) and provide our users a system to synchronize and search this contents in web with particular or common index.- doing what is supposed to do for reaching the last purposes without enter in competition with the giant of the web search , with the big databases, or with the powerful algorythms "living" as artificial minds inside the big music media operators in web.

​These purposes are better explained in:

- the paragraph "Purpose" in this page;

- EMC Features;

- ELL Main page;

- ELL Features;

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