Owen Pallett

Art pop is a strand of pop music that treats the pop song as a canvas for high-concept ideas, experimental techniques, and cross-media aesthetics. It marries accessible melodies and hooks with the visual culture of art schools, the conceptual rigor of the avant-garde, and the studio-as-instrument…

Art rock is a branch of rock music that treats the studio and the album as spaces for artistic experimentation, emphasizing conceptual ideas, ambitious arrangements, and cross-pollination with modernist and avant-garde traditions.

Experimental music is an umbrella term for practices that prioritize exploration, process, and discovery over adherence to established genre norms.

Rock is a broad family of popular music centered on amplified instruments, a strong backbeat, and song forms that foreground riffs, choruses, and anthemic hooks.

Pop is a broad, hook-driven style of popular music designed for wide appeal. It emphasizes memorable melodies, concise song structures, polished vocals, and production intended for radio, charts, and mass media.

Electronic is a broad umbrella genre defined by the primary use of electronically generated or electronically processed sound. It encompasses music made with synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, computers, and studio/tape techniques, as well as electroacoustic manipulation of recorded or…

Classical music is the notated art-music tradition of Europe and its global descendants, characterized by durable forms, carefully codified harmony and counterpoint, and a literate score-based practice.