Circuit bending: The manipulation or modification of electronics or electronic instruments, via chance short-circuiting, to create sounds or (experimental) music.
Ponytail: An executive of a music recording company, especially a music label’s A&R
MP3Jing: The live mixing or playing of recorded music in a dance club or other public space using a portable digital audio device such as an Apple iPod.
Resume on a Rope: A backstage pass.
Stiff: especially describing a music recording, to fail to sell well.
Boomy: Too much low freqency energy
Depth: Full-bodied sound. Often the result of enhancing frequencies just above and below the main body of the instrument
Dry: an instrument without effects applied to it
Plosives: the result of saying or singing p sounds
Sibilance: pronounced s sounds
Wet: an instrument with effects applied to it
Music occupations have their special jargon words used for making music, concerts, and anything else applied in the category, Most of the words used can have a double meaning. The way they use one word could be different from the way you might use it. Some words may also be entirely new to you. Most music occupations more than likely have or use these words on a day to day basis.
Jargon used by a music producers or some sort of music occupation seems a little random. Some of the words you wouldn’t think would mean what they actually mean. However, without this specialty of jargon words some things would probably take a little more explaining. Each word almost has a story behind it of why they say that certain word. For example, Dry. It means to have an instrument used and recorded without using any sort of alterations. Some of the jargon words they could probably do without, but I’m not a music producer so I wouldn’t be able to tell you.
Their uses of jargon words are effective in their occupation. It affects the occupation and where it requires to be used in a both positive and negative way. They might affect people who have never heard them. If someone didn’t know what certain words meant, they could take it almost any way. For the ones who know what is being said and the meanings it probably wouldn’t affect them very much. Depending on who knows what the music jargon words mean would depend on if it was a positive or negative.
The type of music jargon used will probably change in the future. More electronic technologies will be invented and used in producing music. With more technology comes more jargon. From what is used today, there is a pretty wide vocabulary. Betting that it has taken years and years to accomplish this, there is sure to be more. Although, it will take time to evolve, nothing that will happen overnight.
