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abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Wed May 24, 2017 6:49 am

I'm working on a piece about my love of and impression of ambient music.
Any music source suggestions ? What are your impressions?

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Wed May 24, 2017 6:52 am

How could we give you source suggestions for the thing that you love and that would reflect your impressions?

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Wed May 24, 2017 7:06 am

ghettosynth wrote:How could we give you source suggestions for the thing that you love and that would reflect your impressions?

oops, sorry, I mean music I might be missing as kind of research, as listening to new things, might add to the experience. And, might become a book about the music, over all. So I guess it might end up being about more then just my impression. Still thinking about where exactly its going.

Firebird · Post by **Firebird** » Wed May 24, 2017 7:34 am

Check out Spotify is the Ambient category.

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Wed May 24, 2017 7:36 am

Firebird wrote:Check out Spotify is the Ambient category.

Thanks!

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Wed May 24, 2017 8:14 am

There's a nice documentary on Amazon Prime right now (or was as of last week) about Brian Eno. It's definitely worth the watch, great background material.

https://www.amazon.com/Brian-Eno-1971-1 ... B00DY1FW82

SODDI · Post by **SODDI** » Wed May 24, 2017 9:24 pm

ghettosynth wrote:There's a nice documentary on Amazon Prime right now (or was as of last week) about Brian Eno. It's definitely worth the watch, great background material.

https://www.amazon.com/Brian-Eno-1971-1 ... B00DY1FW82

I don't think he means THAT kind of ambient music. They never do.

SODDI · Post by **SODDI** » Wed May 24, 2017 9:27 pm

abstractcats wrote:I'm working on a piece about my love of and impression of ambient music.
Any music source suggestions ? What are your impressions?

That should be "I'm WRITING a piece ABOUT IT THAT MAY become a small book."

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Wed May 24, 2017 9:37 pm

SODDI wrote:
ghettosynth wrote:There's a nice documentary on Amazon Prime right now (or was as of last week) about Brian Eno. It's definitely worth the watch, great background material.

https://www.amazon.com/Brian-Eno-1971-1 ... B00DY1FW82
I don't think he means THAT kind of ambient music. They never do.

I'm not following you. I assumed that OP was writing an article or paper and would want some historical input. What kind of "ambient music" are "they" talking about then?

slipstick · Post by **slipstick** » Wed May 24, 2017 10:26 pm

SODDI wrote:That should be "I'm WRITING a piece ABOUT IT THAT MAY become a small book."

You don't meet many writers who can't spell write. But maybe English is a second language?

So abstractcats why not start off by telling us some of the ambient music that you love so much. Then we can add to your list for you. The trouble is "Ambient" covers a huge range of very different music styles.

Steve

annode · Post by **annode** » Thu May 25, 2017 12:49 am

http://ambientmusicguide.com/history-of-ambient/

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Thu May 25, 2017 1:08 am

Hey Scott. I think ambientonline.org should be back up sometime in the next 3 weeks or so. If you can wait that long, I'm sure there would be no shortage of suggestions from the peeps over there. Part 1 of their new compilation drops (in a manner of speaking) on May 26.

Robert Fripp's Soundscapes (1995 onwards) are a good place to start

cron · Post by **cron** » Thu May 25, 2017 1:30 am

There are a few earlier works with strong resemblance to the more modern 'dark ambient' style you might like to check out.

Bernard Parmegiani's Geologie Sonore from 1975's De Natura Sonorum is an obvious starting point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3z90oPERQY

Barry Truax' early experiments with granular synthesis also fit the bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u81IGEFt7dM

Check out Pauline Oliveros' ideas about 'deep listening' and the accompanying musical works too. Very prescient with regard to the later popularity of droney ambient music and the way in which we listen to it. Her extremely demanding approach to listening is also interesting for being almost entirely the opposite approach Eno took with his pioneering works, Eno seeing ambient music as something that melted into the background (an extension of Erik Satie's "furniture music" perhaps?), rather than something demanding absolute concentration and attention.

Before that, you've got all the New York drone lot like Terry Riley and Phill Niblock who were hinting at something similar, albeit mostly inspired by Indian raga rather than the possibilities inherent to electronics. It really depends on what definition of ambient you're working with, I suppose.

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Thu May 25, 2017 1:40 am

Taylor Deupree
Sinepearl
Ishq
Hybrid Leisureland
Steve Roach
Steve Law

yeah it really depends what your idea of "ambient" is.
Many "ambient" artists also shy away from the name, and many "ambient" musics are probably a bit less ambient and more "downtempo chill" or "psychedelic chill"... i've heard some people say, if it has a beat - it's not ambient... i think it's a bit subjective, like most things music. I generally accept Eno's description, that ambient music is something that's kind going on in the background, that shouldn't distract people from what they're doing...
I also have a CD i bought from Ukraine, some pretty hardcore noise... the genre listed is "Ambient Death"... so yeah, the term "ambient"kinda covers a LOT of ground.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Thu May 25, 2017 1:44 am

Yeah, what ARE her ideas exactly? This sort of thing induces a bit of eye-rolling from me. It just comes across as way too many words to say not much at all.

Seriously, what do people get out of this?

http://ciufo.org/classes/ae_sp14/readin ... _intro.pdf

Here's a video, if you don't like to read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QHfOuRrJB8

Ambient Music - I'm right a piece(may become a small book) about it. Any source suggestions?