Wow, this brings back memories! My roommate in college was really into Brian Eno, and I recall many a night when we'd go to sleep to this. HN is pretty great sometimes.
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)
#52Anyone 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.
I absolutely love "Music for REAL Airports" by The Black Dog.
An obvious poke at the original, it features a darker, moody and slightly unsettling ambience, with some minimal percussive elements in a couple of tracks. It's meant to remind you of the real experience of being in an airport, which isn't exactly a pleasant experience :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icnjrONRCdQ&list=OLAK5uy_lxK...
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#53I used similar techniques to make an ambient album in a couple of days. Rather than tape loops, it's just looping different length samples in Ableton Live. Here's a quick explainer video I uploaded to YouTube.
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#54Anyone 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.
There is a label called Past Inside the Present that does a lot of landscape/soundscape/dreamscape recordings. They are on bandcamp and https://www.pastinsidethepresent.com/ (I am not affiliated, I just have a fair number of their recordings). Check out Zake (I think he is the owner too) and also 36.
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#55Anyone 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.
not quite like eno but still great ambient album, green by hiroshi yoshimura: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7CyMZVhHY
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#56Anyone 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.
I like Eno, Eluvium and Helios and these are some artists that have similar music I’ve found that I didn’t see mentioned so far:
Ryuichi Sakamoto (sample piece: solari)
Roedelius (sample piece: A Short Walk in the Hills)
Vangelis (sample piece: Memories of Green)
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Bowie even came up with a software in the 90s called the Verbasizer to further automate his cut-ups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3IKLMgFaDA
There is also a web app version at https://verbasizer.com/
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#58If you aren't particularly musical, like myself, but love the concept of playing with loops, ambient sounds, etc. give the fully open-source https://www.bespokesynth.com/ a try, it has a brilliant pro tier option as well ;).
A simple MIDI source keyboard can help you find the notes that sound pleasing, then you can code them in. Python support, etc. etc.
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#59This 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 sounde…
I take it every CD contained the same tracks, but each played a recording of a single instrument?
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#60Anyone 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.
I like Eno, Eluvium and Helios and these are some artists that have similar music I’ve found that I didn’t see mentioned so far: Ryuichi Sakamoto (sample piece: solari) Roedelius (sample piece: A Short Walk in the Hills) Vangelis (sample piece: Memories of Green)
Jun Fukamachi - Quark