History Creator / SteveRoden

* {{Ambient}}: UpToEleven. He even created a new genre, lowercase.

* AnythingCanBeMusic[=/=]EverythingIsAnInstrument: Much of Roden's work is deeply conceptual, and often tied to a location, item, or person. As a side effect, his pieces can incorporate anything from field recordings (from archives or his own travels) to household objects and fixtures, to random children's toys, to incredibly old records. ''A Big Circle Drawn With Little Hands'' was composed with sounds made by the contents of a package the label owner sent him.

* AnythingCanBeMusic[=/=]EverythingIsAnInstrument: Much of Roden's work is deeply conceptual, and often tied to a location, item, or person.

* GenreBusting: His music. Is it experimental, electronic, ambient, lowercase, is it even music, or something else?

* CloudCuckooLander: He's uh... odd, to put it lightly. He once performed Music/JohnCage's every day for a year in Berlin, he once got a bunch of stuff from the state of Martha Graham without knowing what it was, went to the archives of a German philosopher, Walter Benjamin, without speaking German and went to see what he could pull from this, and bases his sound art off of other peoples art and his own.
* ElectronicMusic: Kind of... most of the instruments he uses are electronic or [[EverythingIsAnInstrument something else]]

* EpicRocking: Well, more like [=EpicAmbienting.=] However, 90% of his work is incredibly long. It'd be easier to list his songs that aren't 10 minutes or longer.

His play style is considered odd because there is no real technique to it. He claims he wants his sound art to be real and guttural. His work is best described as "Abstract".
All his work - paintings, videos, sound art - is pretty weird.

* EpicRocking: 90% of his work is incredibly long. It'd be easier to list his songs that aren't 10 minutes or longer.

Steve Roden is a painter, designer, video-maker, and "sound artist," who made a pretty big name for himself as the [[TropeMaker pioneer]] of the genre **lowercase**. Lowercase as a genre combines {{Ambient}} and {{Minimalism}}, amplifying quiet, usually unheard, sounds to extreme levels. From [[EverythingIsAnInstrument paper, to light bulbs, broken tape recorders, eerie breathing,]] and whatever else. Roden created the genre in 2001 with his piece ''Forms of Paper'', which is [[EpicRocking 54 minutes]] of sheer silent noises amplified by electronic equipment.

Steve Roden is a painter, designer, video-maker, and, "Sound artist," who made a pretty big name for himself as the [[TropeMaker pioneer]] of the genre lowercase. Lowercase itself is a rather off genre of essentially being {{Ambient}} and {{Minimalism}} pumped up to their extremes. Very long stretches of silence and what moments have no silence and filled with sounds and noises from all things. From [[EverythingIsAnInstrument paper, to light bulbs, broken tape recorders, eerie breathing,]] and whatever else. It was in 2001 when he realized his albums ''Forms of Paper'' that the genre lowercase was born in all it's mightiness. [[EpicRocking 54 minutes]] of shear silent noises amplified by electronic equipment.

His play style is considered odd due to the fact that there is no real technique to it because, as he claims, he wants his sound art to be real and guttural rather than rely on technique. His work, in any aspect, in best described as, "Abstract," considering all his work is pretty weird. From his paintings, videos, and sound art.

* {{Ambient}}: UpToEleven. He really takes this to a new level and made a new genre from this.

* JackOfAllStats: He has {{discussed|Trope}} this saying he doesn't actually feel that and moreso sees his multimedia-ness as giving him a bigger sense of enlightenment because he seeks where all these things connect.

* {{Minimalism}]: From his sound art, to his paintings, videos, and everything else. If there's one thing we can pin him back on, it's this.

Steve Roden is a painter, designer, video-maker, and, "Sound artist," who made a pretty big name for himself as the [[TropeMaker pioneer]] of the genre lowercase. Lowercase itself is a rather off genre of essentially being {{Ambient}} and {{Minimalism}} pumped up to their extremes. Very long stretches of silence and what moments have no silence and filled with sounds and noises from all things. From [[EverythingIsAnInstrument paper, to light bulbs, broken tape recorders, eerie breathing,]] and whatever else. It was in 2001 when he realised his albums ''Forms of Paper'' that the genre lowercase was born in all it's mightiness. [[EpicRocking 54 minutes]] of shear silent noises amplified by electronic equipment.

His play style is considered odd due to the fact that there is no real technique to it because, as he claims, he wants his sound art to be real and gutteral rather than rely on technique. His work, in any aspect, in best described as, "Abstract," considering all his work is pretty weird. From his paintings, videos, and sound art.