I agree. You can also say “non-harmonic” and “harmonic” but then these terms are not used in English speaking countries. They appear in my native tongue and what they mean is “noise” and “tone” respectively. (English people apparently don’t but here where I live we make a clear distinction between “sound” and “noise”. Sound is partially harmonic whereas noise is completely non-harmonic. Percussion instruments, for example, would be classified as producing sound.)
Silence means no change. As you introduce change, you start moving towards noise. The music becomes louder, and harsher, as more and more change is crammed within a short period of time. It also becomes more energetic.
So I stand by what I said: masculine sound is characterized by change.
It’s difficult to tell. I’d say that Colosseum’s track is in a mixed state that is dominated by feminine tendencies.
Nightfall alternates between the two poles every half-a-minute or so. It leaps from one extreme (mellow, quiet, singing) to another (harsh, loud, screaming.) Most of their music is like that – very abrupt. They are too focused on the details i.e. the parts indivdiually. The whole suffers as a consequence, so their music has little to no structure. They don’t know how to gradate – to smoothly interpolate between two states. Their music is very high-energy – much more than the piece you posted. Consider Wheel of Time. If that’s not an energy-drain then I don’t know what is. Frequent changes, constant action, a lot of going on at every single point in time, massive stress on vocal chords, no silence, no rest at any single point in time, and all of that for 9 minutes straight . . .
I would say so. Light, heaven, happiness, positivity, etc is associated with women whereas the opposite which is darkness, hell, pain, negativity, etc is associated with men.
Who looks more masculine to you?
Satan or Jesus?