Live data from Hacker News

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

reverbmachine.com

11–20 of 129 posts

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

#11

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 may enjoy Patrick O'Hearn - particularly something like Still Standing from the Slow Time album.

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

#12

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.

Stars of the lid and Steve Roach have a lot of comparable stuff.

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

#13

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.

Burial (his ambient tracks like State Forest, Forgive), Huerco, Biosphere

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

#14

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.

Steve Reich was another tape loop pioneer.

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

#16

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.

I love ambient music. Some favorites in the same corner of the genre as Eno:

Pauline Oliveros - Deep Listening

Virginia Astley - In Gardens Where We Feel Secure

Machinefabriek - Slaapzucht

Biosphere - The Hilvarenbeek Recordings (anything Biosphere is sublime but a lot of it is darker ambient than Eno)

I could go on forever. But check these out.

Also, every release from this label is gold:

http://www.slaapwelrecords.com/

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

#17

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.

Try the EoN app from Jean-Michel Jarre.

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

#18

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

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

#20

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…

Music is about tempo and sync. In fact, nowadays you can throw anything into a modern DAW software and it will instantly sync everything for you. Eno instead put randomness/chaos at play by using tape loops of different length, so they will never (or very hardly) repeat at the same interval again, or, in his own words: What I mean is they all repeat in cycles that are called incommensurable — they are not likely to c…

For another interesting musical experiment, listen to "Poème symphonique", a "composition" that basically sets up 100 metronomes, winds them up, sets them to random (I believe) speeds, and lets them play and wind down. It starts chaotic, until they eventually run out and form interesting rhythmical patterns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAYGJmYKrI4
Post reply on HN