Q: How might the concept of negative space in painting be applied to music?
A: there's an EDM thing that people do sometimes. let's say you have a full-blown dance beat going, with 4-on-the-floor kick, and you have some heavy compression applied so that all the other instruments duck way down in volume whenever the kick hits. Then, imagine taking out the kick but somehow make it so the rest of the sound is still ducking in that pulse. so now you have a kick shaped hole in the music, on all the downbeats