Style recipe for Suno v5

Lowercase

Lowercase sound from the 2000s: amplified silence, micro sounds, contact mic, intimate and spacious in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

Lowercase pushes ambient minimalism to its extreme: very quiet sounds are amplified to huge levels and framed by long stretches of silence. It draws on microsound, musique concrète, electroacoustic music and ambient. The term came from Steve Roden, who used it for his 2001 album Forms of Paper, recordings of himself handling paper in different ways, commissioned by the Hollywood branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. Roden explained the name himself: this music does not demand attention, it has to be discovered, the opposite of capital letters, which are loud and draw attention to themselves. The composers' collective known as the Wandelweiser Group shaped the style heavily, among them Jürg Frey, Antoine Beuger, Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro and Manfred Werder. Bernhard Günter, Miki Yui and Kim Cascone are counted among its main composers, and Tetsu Inoue, Bhob Rainey, the sound installation artist Richard Chartier and Eva-Maria Houben added to it. The approach also turns up in the joint work of Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

The recipe

Lowercase sound, 2000s, intimate, spacio…

The prompt behind this style packs 33 tags into 586 characters, written in English and paced at 40–60 BPM.

Artists in this style

• Steve Roden
• Richard Chartier

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• Lowercase2000s · 40–55 BPM
• Electroacoustic Improv2000s · 40–80 BPM
• Microsound2000s · 50–70 BPM
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• Harsh Noise Wall2000s · 60–90 BPM
• Ambient Noise2000s · 40–70 BPM
• Musique Concrete1950s · 40–90 BPM