quoted 7 lines I think it's important to make it clear whether you're talking about>> I think it's important to make it clear whether you're talking about
>> Ambient music or Ambient Dance music or Ambient Techno or whatever.
>> There's a big difference between Eno's music for Airports and UFORB.
>> Yet, I'd call them both ambient music. The difference is that Eno
>> is attempting to recreate the feel of an airport, while the orb is
>> attempting to recreate the feel of (say) an out of body experience
>> (in oobe). The orb also would like their tracks to be danceable.quoted 3 lines I though, that specifically, Eno's definition of 'ambient' was music that>I though, that specifically, Eno's definition of 'ambient' was music that
>could: a) be listened to, and at the same time b) function as sonic
>wallpaper (more at having a calming effect).
From what I remember reading in an interview with Eno, the aim of the
series (Music for Airports was the first member of a series of about four
works) was to produce music which was minimalist not to annoy people who
didn't want to hear it, but which would interest the listener, and, most
importantly, would meld in with the sounds already in the environment at
which the music was targetted. Hence the term ambient music, since it was
music targetted to be no more than part of the ambience; the rest of the
sound environment was to be the noises of, say, airports.
If I remember correctly, the genesis for the form was Eno, at home,
listening to the way his fridge, the vacuum cleaner in the next room, the
traffic and people in the street and so on all merged into a whole; this
whole was simultaneously engaging if listened to and ignorable if desired.
Sorry if this all comes across as a load of pretentious bollocks :)
Cheers
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