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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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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.

Check out the album “Tape Loops” by Chris Walla, artist Loscil, and John Cage’s “In a Landscape”.

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

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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.

KEXP out of Seattle has a good program on Sunday mornings with music that often falls in this genre. https://www.kexp.org/shows/pacific-notions/

Also, the blog Headphone Commute has some excellent ambient showcases. Suggest finding their year-end lists and listening through: https://headphonecommute.com/ https://headphonecommute.com/best-of-lists/headphone-commute...

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

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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.

In the 1990s Virgin released a 2 CD sampler followed by a whole series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Ambient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Ambient_series

The first pair of CDs is basically a "who's who" of ambient artists up to that point.

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

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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.

BT did a pair of ambient albums in 2019 that I really enjoy:

Everything You’re Searching For Is Between Here and You

I also appreciate Brain FM [0]. It makes it easy to dial in background music that matches my mood and activity.

[0] https://www.brain.fm

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

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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?

The language is probably Haskell.

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

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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.

« Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 »

Vol. 1 is not really ambient but is a masterpiece nonetheless.

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

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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?

Nothing to fix. The distortion sounds good.

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

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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.

Check out Astral Industries (https://www.astralindustries.co.uk/) and Silent Season (http://www.silentseason.com/) - this is another good place to "dig" for ambient stuff https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-ambient - cheers!

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

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The details still escape me as I feel like I read the words but didn't get the meaning, which is by no means a knock on the write-up, I'm just a complete fool when it comes to musical technology and recording. However, it is a delightfully formatted experience and I spent several minutes playing with the randomize buttons on the site. Don't think any of the resulting mixes sounded bad, but Eno's original is, of cours…

There used to be quite a thing for randomised conpositions in the Baroque era and later, called Musikalisches Würfelspiel. There was also a thing around tape cut-ups in the 1950s, with William Burroughs being very into this stuff, with David Bowie later picking some of this stuff up. It was more about deconstructing expectations than creating something beautiful, but some of the material is very interesting. For the…

Incidentally, Bowie would even do this with lyrics. He would write up lyrics or some phrases, then cut up words or combinations of words, and move them around. That’s why (I always thought), he lyrics gave off a common theme with really interesting and novel turns of phrase.
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