Jon Kale <spbcajk@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
quoted 5 lines If I remember correctly, the genesis for the form was Eno, at home,>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.quoted 1 line Sorry if this all comes across as a load of pretentious bollocks :)>Sorry if this all comes across as a load of pretentious bollocks :)
I'm no Eno expert, but I believe this is a precise definition of his
original concept of "ambient."
The way that techno fans/artists use the word is really in a
different sense than that in which Eno used it. Thus, Eno's comment
about "what they're calling ambient now." It's similar to the term
"industrial." What most people now call industrial is radically
different from the music it first described. Language changes, but
that doesn't necessarily mean the current use of those terms is any
less legitimate than the original uses.
Wait...am I babbling?
Al.