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Not quite ambient, and (I presume) not aleatory, but Sleep by Max Richter has a kind of ambient feel - like Music for 18 Musicians it evolves slowly but intentionally, and draws me along with it.
Now that's a long album. Maybe good for sleeping to?
Do any pop artists know how to code, or do they outsource ideas to people who do?
I really like working to this kind of music. Is there anything out there in the internet that generates infinite Eno-style ambient music?
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.
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 sounde…
Or that nobody played it, or bothered more than once :)
Dumb question. Does Brian Eno how to code? Does Kanye? Do any pop artists know how to code, or do they outsource ideas to people who do?
Our integration vendor had to test and set the volume of all the speakers and put on classical music. We realized that classical music wasn't probably the best choice in a hospital (figure that it can get very... dramatic) and the rest of the crew was figuring out what to put on overhead to carry onwards.
I grabbed my iPad, hooked it into the paging amplifier, hit play on a certain song...
... and the paging system dutifully played 3 chimes indicating an emergency page, and 1/1 boomed across the hospital. A very healing-space-esque theme, very fitting.