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How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)

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Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)

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Post by formvoltron »

pfarrell wrote: post #18
formvoltron wrote: post #15

I was just listening to this last night. So good for getting work done. Too bad he didn't make more.

Nyt article on 15 best ambient works from Eno [0]. See also artists released under the Obscure Records music label that Eno created [1]. Not like Airports, but my favorite album is Another Green World. Every track is a little intricate gem. 0: https://web.archive.org/web/20220222224201/https://www.nytim... 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscure_Records

Wow thank you. This is a great gift you have passed to me. I so thoroughly enjoyed his ambient works that I've burned them into my memory proteins inside my head. To the point of maybe not enjoying them so much any more.

It'll be very good to hear some new tracks.

Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)

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Post by rocky_raccoon »

This reminds me of "Zaireeka" by the Flaming Lips, an album that was sold as four separate CDs and you would have to cobble together every boombox, stereo, and Walkman in your house to try and play them all at the same time. So, you would hit the "play" button on disc #1, frantically try to match your timing with disc #2, inevitably be a few seconds late on disc #3, etc. The end result was that the music never sounded the same twice, especially once you started experimenting with mixing and matching a few of the discs together instead of all four at once.

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Post by adriancooney »

candiddevmike wrote: post #9

Anyone have some other ambient works similar to Eno's? Preferably something more landscapey like music for airports or Apollo. Some of my favorites include Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Robin Guthrie (So Many Short Years Ago), Brian McBride (Overture for other halfs), and Helios.

Thanks for the recommendations. Some of my fav ambient(ish) albums that might fit in that list:

- William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops

- Jon Hopkins - Music For Psychedelic Therapy

- Erland Cooper - Music for Growing Flowers

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Post by motohagiography »

Learning to write a basic cannon at the moment, and this seems really similar, but with tape loops, instead of offset or syncopated melodies, in his ambient style the melodies are mostly rests. Are they they same, or is a cannon necessarily different?

Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)

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Post by parkersweb »

I went to see him speak at a music festival in the summer. He spoke about one of his recent projects - the 10,000 year clock: https://www.solidsmack.com/design/what-jeff-bezos-and-brian-... The idea is that modern living has been divided into smaller and smaller sub-divisions as processors get faster, media competes for attention and attention spans get shorter. The 10,000 clock was an artistic endeavour to engineer and design for a much broader time span - and every day the peal of bells is unique to that day only. I found the way he thinks about extending the bounds of creativity in new ways quite inspiring.

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Post by maupin »

candiddevmike wrote: post #9

Anyone have some other ambient works similar to Eno's? Preferably something more landscapey like music for airports or Apollo. Some of my favorites include Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Robin Guthrie (So Many Short Years Ago), Brian McBride (Overture for other halfs), and Helios.

Milieu's soundtrack to Eufloria, https://milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/eufloria

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Post by chaosprint »

skhm wrote: post #26

This was a really pleasant read. Inspired me to spend a few minutes hacking together some out-of-phase pianos ( https://twitter.com/harryaskham/status/1580174416889069570 ).

Interesting. What's this language? The audio comes with some distortions though. Perhaps limiting the volume and adding a filter can fix it?

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Post by tebbers »

candiddevmike wrote: post #9

Anyone have some other ambient works similar to Eno's? Preferably something more landscapey like music for airports or Apollo. Some of my favorites include Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Robin Guthrie (So Many Short Years Ago), Brian McBride (Overture for other halfs), and Helios.

You might like https://ambientsleepingpill.com/
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