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- Jon Hassell (March 22, 1937 – June 26, 2021) was an American trumpet player and composer. He was best known for developing the concept of "Fourth World" music, which describes a "unified primitive/futurist sound" combining elements of various world ethnic traditions with modern electronic techniques.
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Jon Hassell (March 22, 1937 [1] – June 26, 2021) was an American trumpet player and composer. He was best known for developing the concept of "Fourth World" music, which describes a "unified primitive/futurist sound" combining elements of various world ethnic traditions with modern electronic techniques. [1]
On his return to New York, Hassell created an “invisible sonic sculpture” called ‘Solid State’, an early experiment in analogue Moogtronica whose tones were time-sculpted using voltage-controlled filters.
Jon Hassell, a composer and trumpeter who blended modern technology with ancient instruments and traditions to create what he called Fourth World music, died on Saturday. He was 84. Mr. Hassell’s music floated outside the genre boundaries of classical music, electronica, ambient music or jazz.
Jun 28, 2021 · Despite his fallout with Eno — first for murky accreditation issues and then for basically calling the inventor of ambient a sellout of sorts — they were kindred spirits in trying to simply bring sounds into the world that they believed were new.
Jon Hassell’s concept of Fourth World music transcends the so-called ‘primitive’ and the so-called ‘futurist’, by seamlessly uniting traditional rhythmic and melodic concepts, with recombinant aesthetics made possibly by the creation of high technology.
Sep 19, 2017 · Hassell is best known as the creator of Fourth World music, an acoustic-electronic blend of minimalism, jazz, drone, ambient, traditional African and Asian instruments and harmolodic signatures. Hassell unveiled the concept on his debut album, Vernal Equinox, in 1978.
Feb 8, 2009 · Though first inspired by more mainstream jazz, Hassell has worked with electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen and studied with Indian classical singer Pandit Pran Nath.
