I was perusing the new age section of Blockbuster 'Music'
the other day and I came across this CD from some poofy headed feeb named
John Hartnell or Jimmy Buttcheek or some thing...
I can recall and I wish I had written it down.
The CD was called, ehhh, Ambient Trancendences or some shit.
The thing about it is this:
The comments on the back claimed he 'invented' ambient music long before
Eno ever accepted the term...
I don't want to argue the point of who did or did not 'invent' anything...
It just made me wonder if this was not like someone claiming to have
'invented' the color blue. Blue just IS. One day someone figured out
how to manufacture blue in pens and in paint tubes, but this does not
mean that blue never was before that time. Just look up on a clear day.
There you have it. (No, not the sun, the space AROUND the sun.)
Ambient music...
Or just ambience.
Ambient noise, even.
It is just the structure and melody of sounds that surround us.
We can really, theoretically, do without the CD's and just let our minds
wander enough until we begin to hear distant conversations blending in
with wind and footsteps and a car driving three blocks over.
That is ambient music. The marketable kind is an imaginary version of
the same things...but instead of just waiting for it to happen at random,
it has been deliberately constructed.
Why the need to have been the one to 'invent' what existed in nature
since there was a nature?
I figure his music must suck so he has to find a credential elsewhere.
Dunno.
Didnt buy it.
Probably won't.
Jasonosaj.