I like driving to both [ambient music and dance music], but I think, like, dance music is more like the ambient music of driving, whereas ambient music is the ambient music of being at home.
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"Endless" is certainly full of beautiful, soulful, and ambient music.
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Purple waves fill the three attached monitors, accompanied by ambient music.
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So here's a hefty list of the year's best ambient music.
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Do you listen to a lot of ambient music in general?
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Don't be fooled by the ambient music playing in the background.
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I think of this record as something more like ambient music.
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What was Warp Records' importance to both ambient music and IDM?
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In 1978, Brian Eno launched his startling, ambient Music for Airports.
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Soothing massage parlor ambient music played from speakers around the room.
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More than 80 percent of the music meditations use ambient music.
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Linked Sonos Play:5 speakers provide ambient music throughout the different rooms.
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Colin Joyce talks more about all sorts of ambient music on Twitter.
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Do you listen to ambient music a lot in your spare time?
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Light some candles, set some quiet ambient music in the background...PSYCH.
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How are ambient music and politics connected for you if at all?
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Clue of the form "Blah, blah, blah ... ambient music ... "blah, blah, blah.
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Ambient music is a great example of this, because it often is wordless.
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We've already triumphed the beauty of ambient music in this road to serenity.
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It's something you could easily feel applies to a lot of ambient music.
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At first, soft ambient music plays, but only for the first few minutes.
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I, all of 22 years old, suddenly fostered a deep appreciation for ambient music.
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Also discussed are our Valentine's Day faves: Prince, David Mancuso, and twitchy ambient music.
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I'll plug in headphones, play some ambient music and lose myself in a book.
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Mr. Eno's ambient music aspires to deflect attention, to slip into the perceptual background.
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It unlocked, for me, a new way of thinking about the power of ambient music.
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I slowly branched out, started listening to more classical music, more metal, more ambient music.
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Someone runs across the garden naked, long hair swishing, while slightly menacing ambient music builds.
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I think The Orb really needs to settle down and just do ambient music now.
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This soundtrack features 11 tracks of ambient music to help relax your mind for meditation.
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Instead, it was a record that nodded towards the cosmic end of ambient music and Krautrock.
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I like to put [ambient] music on, just because it helps me clear my head out.
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If you're going to link ambient music to politics, I hope it's more active than passive.
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Eric Eberhardt: I was always a huge fan of electronic music and ambient music in particular.
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In a way, the serene environments that permeate Yachty's work share some similarity with ambient music.
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At this point, the assistant will play ambient music in the background until you begin reading again.
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Colin Joyce is an editor for Noisey who's probably listening to ambient music and scrolling through Twitter.
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After about half an hour of ambient music and darkness, I started to feel like myself again.
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It smelled like a Buddhist temple, and there was New Age ambient music playing in the background.
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He doesn't make electronic dance music, ambient music, hip-hop, electropop or any other easily labeled genre.
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If you have a date planned, pick a bar or restaurant with low lighting and ambient music.
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Earlier this year, Warmsley was asked if he thought there was a social/political component to ambient music.
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It meshes ambient music and songs with words, in tracks that move amid meditation, disquiet, desolation and uplift.
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It's not really genre specific, more so a certain feeling that sits somewhere between Slowdive and ambient music.
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It's misty-eyed ambient music at its very best—sentimental and melancholic, but full of a strange, unshakeable warmth.
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One doesn't marvel over the impersonality of industrial or ambient music, because those aren't supposed to be expressive forms.
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Muji, a Japanese retailer that sells household goods and consumer products, is known for popularizing ambient music in stores.
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For just over 15 years now, Vancouver-born musician Tim Hecker's been redefining our relationship with, and to, ambient music.
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Even with the ambient music, soothing essential oils, and Rockwood's belly massages, I could not will myself to feel good.
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Either way, this music fits that Brian Eno definition of ambient music, the "as ignorable as it is interesting" thing.
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The album includes a handful of wispy, beatless tracks that might be considered ambient music, a genre that Eno invented.
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THUMP: What was your relationship to found sounds and ambient music before you started You Are Listening To Los Angeles?
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Unlike the unsettled atmosphere of some of his other releases under the moniker, this is ambient music as self-care.
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G.R. Built from two slowly tolling piano chords and countless reverberating, wordless voices, Sarah Davachi's "Evensong" isn't exactly ambient music.
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If you're feeling spooky, you can't go wrong with more than an hour of ambient music from the Metroid series.
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Picture the ambient-music YouTube channel's aesthetic applied to everything else: anodyne, blameless, meaningless, boring, designed only to occupy time.
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His early music experiments yielded works like Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in the history of ambient music.
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Melanie di Biasio - Blackened Cities Ted Goia called di Biasio "the Billie Holliday of Belgian ambient music," which is about right.
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Recently, we've had more cause than ever, at least on a geopolitical scale, to seek the respite that ambient music offers.
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These aren't the cool parents of Pitchfork Music Festival who implant their offspring with Caribou records and beatless ambient music, though.
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Can you arrange synth lines into trance-like whirlpools and still call it ambient music, like SKY H1 does on "Huit"?
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Set to ambient music by Dusk Horizon, Ernő & Rubï move from bus stop to coffee shop, rain pouring or sun shining.
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The reason that it's possible to define ambient music as a sort of branch of psychoanalysis of contemporary genres—particularly electronic and new wave music—is because ambient music is firmly aware of its desire to not be designated as an intrinsic participant in its own art, but instead as a thing that corresponds to its own metaphysics.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Since the late 1970s, Steve Roach has been exploring and expanding the limits of ambient music.
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Generative.fm People who haven't worked from home much likely don't have a big selection of ambient music that's easy to work through.
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Inside, ambient music played, which served as a stark contrast from the usual nightclub-inspired soundtrack heard in most Las Vegas elevators.
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Without the Cagian groundwork, it's unlikely his ambient music would have gained much traction—and perhaps he would have never pursued it all.
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Your music is influenced by new age, ambient music, and instrumental music, and you are also big advocates of yoga, meditation, and shiatsu.
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This year's festival promised to run the gamut from sound art, noise, vocal manipulations, and ambient music, with avant luminaries like Godspeed You!
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In the track, titled "The 1975," Thunberg recites an essay over ambient music, urging listeners to join a popular rebellion against climate change.
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And you cease to exist because Chill Out does what all good ambient music does—it is literally and metaphorically transportive and transformative.
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I caught up on some listening I'd fallen behind on earlier this year; I sat on the couch and listened to ambient music.
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In one of Cocolab's most recent projects, "White Canvas," an ocean of lights accompanies a soundtrack of crashing waves, birdcalls, and ambient music.
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At its center is a sort of openness—which feels refreshing as someone who spends a lot of time listening to ambient music.
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Interviews with each of the portrait subjects played for the duration of the show over a background soundtrack of strangely relaxing ambient music.
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They also have the option to add the noises of nature to your wake-up call too, like bird songs or ambient music.
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Barefoot, shirtless, black, they sit on benches in a spare white space that could be a steam room, while ambient music filters through.
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Vaporwave is a musical and aesthetic movement (started in the early 2010s) that spliced ambient music, advertising, and imagery from when the internet started.
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And throughout 2016, the Museum of Contemporary Art teamed up with local electronic luminary Anenon to host fringe ambient music projects in its galleries.
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Ambient music—slow, drifting compositions, often for electronics but really for any instrument that allows long-sustained notes—has become a spiritual life raft.
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Any of that hypnotic, ambient music, to me, is just like club music, but without the beats—it's almost like techno without the rhythms.
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We recently spoke to him over Skype about the impetus for the project and the politics of setting police scanner audio to ambient music.
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A DJ played ambient music, while a projector played the movies Baraka and Samsara—films with no spoken words, but colorful and alluring visuals.
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Other videos uploaded to the account include a live recording of a band from Denmark and an illustration of a snail set to ambient music.
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If you pause, perhaps because your kid has a question, the Google Home will play ambient music in the background until you start reading again.
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Like a number of likeminded artists huddled under the umbrella of ambient music, she works with damp synth patches, blustery vocals, and foggy effects processing.
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These aren't people who have some sort of organization or agent or manager, everyone's in it together, to make people more aware of ambient music.
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People were more likely to pick unhealthful or calorie-laden items when the ambient music was loud, and healthful items when softer music was played.
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He responded, "In my case there is", and then lamented how people of color are often minimized or outright forgotten in the history of ambient music.
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In a tribute to the man whose name has become synonymous with ambient music, astronomers renamed the asteroid formerly known as 81948 (2000 OM69) to Eno.
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Colleen, an ambient music composer from France, is known for her minimalist songs composed mostly on the viola da gamba, an instrument similar to the cello.
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Their unraveling free-associative compositions drew on their love of free jazz and ambient music—forms that prize moments of discovery which emerge from overall shapelessness.
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The mysterious video didn't give away much except for some brief clips of ambient music; it's not clear if they were snippets from Boys Don't Cry.
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After "Even a Tree Can Shed Tears," Light in the Attic plans further volumes focusing on ambient music and the 1980s genre known as city pop.
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Last year, determined to combat what he saw as an "all-time high" of negativity, he released ambient music both as Junie Morrison and as BoyinSea.
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A lot of ambient music can feel escapist or enveloping, something to overwhelm the chaos around you, but Limpid as the Solitudes has a slightly different feeling.
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The album's monolithic bass drones are as gut-wrenching as any of the landmark works that placed Lustmord at the forefront of so-called "dark ambient" music.
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While I enjoy the ambient music, I recommend that you mute the video midway through and play some dense opera to really capture the majesty of nature.
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In the early afternoon on Saturday, the saxophonist from Bon Iver's band and a bunch of others create what seems to be improvised and beautiful ambient music.
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" As ambient music played over my headphones, I spoke to Steve Cho and Karmen Wu and their six-year-old American Eskimo Dog Schubert—"like the composer.
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The album, which was briefly played in a terminal in La Guardia Airport in the '80s, is hailed today as a high-water mark of ambient music.
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When I need to stitch my mind back together, there's a panacea I often rely on: The oddly calming combination of police radio and ambient music. youarelistening.
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The idea here is to properly integrate the visuals with the ambient music, which of course is comprised of all sorts of waveforms and their various permutations.
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In this mid-size aircraft, a mechanical roar underscores the entire flight, drowning out Breath of the Wild's ambient music and all but the sharpest sound effects.
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IN TRANSIT During the ride home we listen to classical or ambient music, anything that doesn't put me in a frenzy because I hate driving in America.
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I started wanting to put it together in a certain way that would be exciting to people who listen to electronic music and ambient music as well.
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Caruana and her team still had plenty to do, stitching the shots together and composing ambient music, after a two-day shoot with a frequently exhausted subject.
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As Colin Joyce joyfully explores in his work, ambient music can help us drown out some of the extraneous noise and leave our minds open to new ideas.
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As Loscil, Vancouver resident Scott Morgan makes the kind of ambient music that hovers perfectly between soothing and disquiet: processed soundscapes that bring blackened lunar landscapes to mind.
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Callahan's released a couple of shimmery and hallucinatory collections of ambient music, including the memorably graceful Epitaph for the perennial purveyors of cosmic slop at Orange Milk Records.
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One particularly beautiful effort is "Listen to Wikipedia," which renders edits being made in real-time both visually and socially, and the effect makes surprisingly relaxing ambient music.
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But he's a longtime member of Tortoise, the influential post-rock band, and he has clearly also been affected by trip-hop, ambient music and Western classical experimentalism.
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Although I can barely focus while listening to ambient music on headphones, surely there are some oddballs out there that might benefit from a little screen-time at Hooters.
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The gameplay and puzzle design act as something of a distraction, but not a frustration, while the game's painted vistas and ambient music lull you to be almost meditative.
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The more I wander out into the expanses of Reflection, the more I'm convinced that it's a fulfilment of one of the things I most want from ambient music.
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Colin: A little Tim-Hecker-type-beat for my tastes, but I'm firmly of the opinion that much like bad pizza, even kinda middling ambient music still kicks ass.
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I noticed that the audience cheers primarily came from one speaker, along with some ambient music sounds and the mains came from the HomePod almost directly in front of me.
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The ambient music, much of which is seeing a 40(ish)-year anniversary reissue in November, can transport you to other worlds or simply be the audible equivalent of incense.
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Although he's often considered the godfather of ambient music (he'll make you a very quiet record you can't refuse!), Ambient 1: Music For Airports (1978) wasn't the first ambient album.
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It's the sort of comfortably escapist album that Eno has been making since he first coined and popularized the term "ambient music" in the mid 1970s—or maybe even before.
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Colin Joyce is an editor at Noisey, who uses ambient music to cope with the fact that being on Twitter all the time is more or less a job requirement.
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As the title and concept of the comp promise, it's a slow-moving piece, but it's light and playful too—on the brighter side of the spectrum of ambient music.
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As inspirations, heady ambient music, high school drama and majestic horizons seem to be doing the trick for Mr. Gonzalez, who is in the midst of a seismic solo career.
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"I think whatever music, whether it's jazz or metal or Sufi music or ambient music or electronic music, there's a certain level of," he paused to find the right words.
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When you enter one of those environments, you're immediately plunged into a fully realized nature setting, accented by ambient music and incredibly realistic, yet subtle wildlife and weather sound effects.
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So much ambient music is concerned with the passage of time, drawing attention to the ways moments are connected to one another and how one thought is linked to the last.
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Go with a classic spa vibe and play ambient music, try our sleep playlist to get your partner into deep relaxation mode, or replay a Valentine's Day playlist for extra romance.
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Experiments Are Run to Explore Therapeutic Qualities of Ambient Music and LSDFinally, after decades of testing the effects of psychedelic drugs on music, the relationship is considered from the other perspective.
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So ambient music gives a platform for these mundane experiences to be a little more exciting, or at least less dull: to elevate a leisurely afternoon in some new-age spa.
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"All works will be based on the idea of ambient music, a music that wants to make (palpably) tangible the acoustic space as well as the visual stimulus," Raster-Noton announces.
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The quotidian activities of her daily life, it turns out — her performing them, him creating ambient music about them — had allowed them both to purchase homes in the same lovely neighborhood.
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Ambient music is often referred to as "meditative," but this stuff truly feels like the fractured headspace you enter after spending a long time trying to fixate on nothing in particular.
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Just think of Huerco S., who you'll be performing with in London, and whose recent 2016 LP sparked a big discussion on whether it could still be considered ambient music or not.
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In almost every case, though, "site-specific work" at the Glass House has entailed inhabiting the unique exhibition space, often with contemporary dance or ambient music — not interfering with the house itself.
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I spent a ton of time with my band staring at all these artists that go from folk country to hip hop, and dance to ambient music, figuring out the best sequence.
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The languid songs on "Spirit of Eden" included elements of free jazz, blues, contemporary classical, industrial and ambient music as well as rock, with Mr. Hollis's quavering vocals floating over it all.
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"Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting," Eno wrote in the album's liner notes.
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This isn't the first time Frank has broadcast himself in his workshop, but previous streams were punctuated by short clips of ambient music, rather than the longer chunks of music we heard tonight.
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As ambient music plays, and videos suggesting cell division unspool, small engines with cameras attached run around the tracks, sometimes projecting images of the translucent tunnels and culverts they pass around and through.
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That feeling – of being alone, but starring in your own film, and therefore not sad and alone but alone with comforting purpose – is something you can usually get from listening to ambient music.
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Streaming platforms like Spotify created a new market for context playlists full of sleep and ambient music, and music software like Endel might disrupt that market by lowering the cost of production to zero.
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This obsession landed her a sponsorship from Moog, and helped catch the eye of Teklife's DJ Earl, with whom she's working on new project called WORKFLOWW that draws from club, jazz, and ambient music.
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You don't get the traditional headphone experience here of feeling like you're surrounded by whatever music is playing — music playing on the Xperia Ear sounds more like ambient music playing overhead at a mall.
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Later on, I became a fan of ambient music—Brian Eno and Stars Of The Lid and different soundtracks—stuff where I didn't have to hear vocals because modern metal was becoming very whiny.
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A new documentary, called Lunar Orbit, having its London premiere at the Doc 'n Roll Film Festival, takes a look at these pioneers of ambient music and the processes and stories behind their sound.
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I turned to the internet for help and discovered a wealth of apps (including Insight Timer, eMindful, Headspace, and many others) that offered guided meditation courses set to an array of soothing ambient music.
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Making ambient music in 2016 is not hard - a laptop mic, a free download of PaulStretch, and a SoundCloud account, and you're most of the way towards making that Fennesz record you've always wanted.
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Calm is rich in features and comes with slick presentation, but it's hard to shake the feeling that ambient music, sleep podcasts, and breathing exercises are all things you can find for free online.
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Together with the bassist Gabe Noel and the electronic percussionist Philippe Melanson, Gendel builds a rubbery sound-space out of the influences of U.K. jungle, ambient music, underground hip-hop and American Minimalism. RUSSONELLO
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They deal in twitchy drones, free-associating ambient music, cathedral-sized instrumentals, and chattery sound art—all of which is united in a spirit of pushing boundaries and celebrating the rich histories of electronic composition.
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Being part of a larger tendency — which could be called ambient music but is really the echoed-and-repeated-vocal subcategory thereof — Ms. Barwick has been cheerful in interviews about the artists she's compared to.
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GURUGRAM (Reuters) - While most residents of the Indian capital Delhi choked on toxic air this week, the dogs of the city's elite were enjoying ambient music and purified air at a luxury resort for pets.
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The London producer feels similarly about ambient music and solitude, telling Truants Blog last year that he started writing music in 2007 so he would have something to listen to when walking around cities alone.
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Personally, the only music I can actually constructively work to is ambient music, but it's important to recognise that the nature of the genre means it may not translate over the office speakers every time.
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Eventually I found two resources that were amazing, one was SoundCloud, which has tons and tons of free audio available for streaming especially electronic and ambient music, so I put a huge playlist together there.
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Public Records' early bookings for performances in the main space include Damo Suzuki, the Japanese musician known for his stint singing with Can; the ambient-music giant Laraaji; and the minimalist techno artist Jan Jelinek.
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Scene Delete, his first since 2002's masterly Airdrawndagger, was a melodic, downtempo record that echoed his love for the ambient music made by acts like KLF and The Orb at the height of his stardom.
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"Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting," he wrote in the liner notes of Music for Airports.
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You're Dead is nominally an electronic record, but it features contributions from Lamar, Snoop Dogg and Herbie Hancock, warp-speed jazz soloing and long stretches of oblique soundscapes that share more with ambient music than not.
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Four producers and composers from across the world—and across the spectrum of misty ambient music—each offer up career best collections of glossine synth work, translucent guitar drones, and the distant sighs of other instruments.
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Thorson liked her fusion of ambient music, techno, and 8-bit sounds so much that he decided to bring her on to compose the soundtrack for a new platformer he was developing: a game called Celeste.
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With regards to Low and the rest of the "Berlin Trilogy," it's important to understand the contributions of both Visconti and Eno in tandem with Bowie if you're going to appreciate its influence on ambient music.
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"There's a link between technology and stress, but stress is bigger than technology," said Randall Redfield, co-founder and CEO of Dreampad – a "smart" pillow that plays ambient music to help people relax and fall asleep.
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The traditional album version of "Reflection" is a 54-minute single track that, much like the ambient music Mr. Eno has been making since the late 1970s, uses looping meditative passages that change with slow variations.
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Ambient music giant Brian Eno has shared his sensitive cover of The Velvet Underground's seminal dream pop song "I'm Set Free," which he's retitled "Fickle Sun (iii) I'm Set Free," from his forthcoming album The Ship.
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Obviously Neil had been listening to a lot of ambient music and Talk Talk during the making of Pygmalion, but then went back to his roots, like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, which then influenced Mojave 3.
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Early on, that meant working with some of dance music's biggest thinkers to shape a still-unique blend of ambient music, techno, and trip-hop tropes that exploded the templates of what electronic music songwriting can be.
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Last year, the Austrian label Vinyl on Demand approached the synthesist and ambient music pioneer Steve Roach about reissuing his 1982 debut NOW as an LP. "They requested adding a bonus track," writes Roach on his bandcamp.
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The Mac Pro showcase across the street looked like an Apple product video come to life: everything perfectly arranged, the light calibrated to catch every inch of aluminum in a positive angle while intense ambient music played overhead.
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Bad ambient music—and it does exist, in swathes, in droves, in endless piles of burnt plastic rotting in the bottom of landfill sites in the middle of the Indian ocean—sits like a fart in a lift.
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My initial idea of what straight edge music would sound like was more along the lines of ambient music, but that wouldn't make sense considering that you almost have to be on drugs to thoroughly enjoy that shit.
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His solo work has mostly lived up to that promise—the distorted creep of last year's Airport Music for Black Folk called into question the idea that ambient music could be a proper soundtrack for government-patrolled spaces.
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And it's all the work—well, save for subtle strains of ambient music, and a great little poster that's on the board above its Rezzed station, of one man, Australian developer Jay Weston, working under the name Exbleative.
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Drawing on his roots in the hip-hop and electronic underground, he was at the forefront of a heady scene in the 90s that hybridized ambient music and breakbeats (he and his peers half-jokingly called it illbient).
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The Whiskey opened in 1991 and was an instant hit, drawing celebrities and offering a sophisticated alternative to the throbbing mega-clubs of the time, with its Philippe Starck design, high-priced cocktails, mood lighting and ambient music.
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In the last four months the prolific Dutch producer has dropped two albums under two separate aliases, a new remix for Baba Stiltz, as well as a Cyberzine and DJ mix devoted to ambient music and recreational drug use.
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Also characteristically, it strikes out into sonic territory belonging to both folk and ambient music, culminating in an extended choral outro that sounds like the sun rising on one of those picturesque Middle American landscapes Stevens is fond of.
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Behind the soundboard—which is placed on a podium in the back of the hall and shrouded in army style camouflage—Copenhagen-based techno DJ Rune Bagge is mixing together a sensory overload of techno and dark ambient music.
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Assembled from scattered pieces of old TV commercials and strung together by Lopatin's hypnotizing synth work, Replica was ambient music like nothing we'd ever heard before, conjuring up something new and futuristic while still sounding ancient, buried, and forgotten.
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Eric Eberhardt's website, You Are Listening To Los Angeles, builds on that tradition, combining live audio from first responder scanners with ambient music, resulting in either a creepy or calming portrait of a city, depending on who you ask.
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While many of Nadja's releases are centered in doom metal and ambient music, the ways these sounds present themselves varies wildly from album to album, providing a wholly new and engaging set of ideas for the listener to explore.
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Love Streams is not the sort of ambient music you can throw on in the background, because you can't really separate yourself from it—you're forced to breathe it in until it fills your lungs and turns your snot black.
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This year, Google tweeted out an enigmatic, 12-line block of tweet with an accompanying URL that led to a video with equally enigmatic voiced narration of said text, put to a string of cryptic images and some pleasant ambient music.
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"Making [something] really inaccessible, avant-garde, and really out there is something I think would have been easier to do since Dean and I both listened to all sorts of crazy ambient music all day when making this," Boreta says.
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Over the years, he's toyed with distended ambient music, sprightly guitar pop, weirdo tape projects, acid house, and now largely unclassifiable electronic experiments—seeming to follow his every whim far beyond its logical endpoint, and without any specific audience in mind.
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She's so soft spoken that I struggle to fully get her instructions to "relax your shoulders," and "make a space between your ribs" over the sound of ambient music, her singing bowl, and two bawling drunks on the street below.
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In part, she says, that's a nod to her recent fascination with Japanese ambient music from the 80s, like Hiroshi Yoshimura's Music for Nine Postcards, but it's also a desire to bring back a little more structure to her work.
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Like the promise of a lot of ambient music, which Phillips says they've always loved, it's implicit permission for you to turn down too, to take a minute to look inside yourself, and actually deal with whatever you find there.
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The genre has long been of interest to vaporwave and future funk musicians, who were quick to adapt its plastic, feel-good qualities into bleary-eyed pastiche, and other styles of Japanese ambient music have found similar success thanks to YouTube's recommendation sidebar.
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On top of being able to display notifications and the time at a glance and remain primed for the "Ok Google" voice command, the Pixel 23.5 will also listen for any ambient music playing, which it will try and identify on the fly.
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But as you might expect from a label that operates at the avant edge of electronic music, the producers assembled here mostly set up camp with the cowboys, pushing and poking at traditionally held notions of ambient music to mind-expanding effect.
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Tracks like "Yaeyama Islands (Setting Sun)" and "Crystal Palace Dolphin" hint at Moynihan's interest in Japanese ambient music so it isn't at all surprising when he mentions the work of ambient pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura and Yellow Magic Orchestra's Haruomi Hosono as being influential.
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With its score by the ambient music pioneers Brian Eno, Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois — and its narration provided by the original Mission Control audio recordings, combined with reflective astronaut interviews — "For All Mankind" evokes the grand science-fiction adventure of Apollo.
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In 1975, he released Another Green World and Discreet Music, and in doing so definitively signaled the beginning of a new era: Ambient music was presented as an unprecedented aesthetic experience, a destabilized narrative in which images, soundscapes, and atmospheric recordings flowed.
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So it was with great interest I dove into this world, replacing my usual work day jams with ambient music and atmospheric soundscapes to see what it was all about and, coincidentally, if the music could take the edge off both me and my dog.
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And that's true over the course of the whole record, as he gleefully jumps between jittery ambient music ("Mizu Youkan"), slo-mo trip-hop ("Clock"), and off-kilter house music ("Akarui"), using a little bit of everything to sound like nothing you've ever heard before.
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Following The Dream Derealised, he released a further two compilations of ambient music, Lightnesses I and II, in 2017, before embarking on a multimedia art project titled Your Wilderness Revisited—an exploration of the oft-ignored, serviceable beauty of new build housing estates in Britain.
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Their melancholy, ethereal music crossed borders that would seem farcical to an outsider, but are held in deep reverence by those who are sworn to their love of black metal, doom, neofolk, progressive rock, acoustic guitar, ambient music—or, thanks to Agalloch, all of the above.
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He composed the evocative six-second start-up sound for Windows 95; he is also a pioneer of sustained, nearly motionless ambient music and of computerized video art like "77 Million Paintings," a title that undercounts the number of slowly evolving images it can eventually display.
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Ambient music legend Laraaji will do a workshop on laughter meditation and his eight-hour celestial sleep concert, renowned Detroit producer K-HAND will teach a DJ seminar for kids, and Sacred Bones-affiliated industrial musician Pharmakon will teach a class on how to use contact microphones.
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This is a quality that's reflected in the selection of tracks that he's put together for the latest THUMP Mix, a drifting collection of compositions that could nominally be called ambient music, but feel a little grander—music for searching yourself and the world around you.
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Or, in my case, listening to a reassuring playlist that rarely seemed to deviate from Grouper's Ruins (the ambient music that had become my sanctuary) or the blank silence that was as much a part of my consciousness as my limbs are part of my body.
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The other patients were also given a player and the same instructions about how often to listen, but their selections were various types of ambient music, mainly consisting of environmental sounds, which research has shown does little to reduce pain or symptoms, the study team notes.
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Pitching itself somewhere between the more exploratory, electronica of East India Youth, and his tentative steps into ambient music after that project's dissolution, and pinned together by Doyle's recognizable, near choral vocal, it's the sound of an artist regaining control over the chaos that nearly engulfed him.
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Each record is distinct from the last—her pieces are often made as explorations of specific instruments— but they're linked in their gentle, ebbing approach, uniting the physicality of the classical music she grew up studying with the inherent quietude of the traditions of drone and ambient music.
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Among the artists with fan-created mailing lists popular in my scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s were Kate Bush, Jazz Butcher, Robyn Hitchcock, Tori Amos, the record label 33AD, the "tweenet announcement" list that came out of that 4AD list, and an ambient music list.
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Along with premiering a mini-mix of the album, we caught up with the artist over email to hear more about his affinity for ambient music, whether you'd ever find him in a 90s chill-out room, and how important it is to try something different in one's career.
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The concert combined a set of gorgeous, bucolic ambient music played by the sound artist Lea Bertucci with a true oddity: a live performance of "Music and Poetry of the Kesh," an album of electronic music by Todd Barton and the late science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Once enabled, the Pixel will detect the song and artist of any ambient music playing near your phone and display it right on your home screen (a feature that came quite in handy for me the other day when I wanted to identify what Billie Eilish song I was hearing).
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We dig into the group of lo-fi house producers who are rapidly moving into more fully realized pieces, a new generation of DJs who are slowly incorporating ambient music into their work, and a few musicians taking grammar of house tracks and turning it into something more strange and surreal.
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Drawing on his history in ambient composition and his affinity for complex rhythmic interplay, it's a collection of instrumentals that feels equally indebted to the genteel malleted percussion of 80s Japanese ambient music, the roiling contortions of fusion-y jazz, proggy compositional backflips, and the sunrise sonics of new age music.
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Jumping between elements of folk, indie, and ambient music (with some church bells and steel pedal guitar in there too) Ware and company have created an album that will appeal to fans of bands like Cayetana or Bright Eyes without ever feeling like folk music is being forced down their throats.
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With a careful attention to the affective qualities of ambient music, acts like Rolling Acres and G. S. Schray have established a sort of small-town midwestern regional sound on the imprint, Talons', in the meantime, has carried its songwriter to Chicago, New York, and eventually Madrid for grad school.
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Some of the spoken-word-over-ambient-music tracks, like Susie Green's, have a jangly and twangy guitar sound and staccato rhythmic flair I associate with the non-conformist 1980s recordings of Laurie Anderson and the Talking Heads by way of Jon Hassell and Brian Eno's landmark recording Fourth World, Vol.
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Behavioral scientists who ran a series of lab studies and real-life field experiments found participants selected more unhealthful or calorie-laden items like red meat and cake when the ambient music was loud, and were more likely to choose healthful items when softer music was played in the background.
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Besides the fact that his albums have gotten a notable bump in popularity thanks to their regular appearance in YouTube's algorithmic rotation of old Japanese ambient music, Hosono has also recently entered a new sphere of exposure in America thanks to Light in the Attic's reissues of some of his most crucial releases.
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There's been so much great ambient music this year—and it's a genre that's hard to be overtly critical of (like pizza, even the bad stuff is still pretty good)—but this release has some of the most lively moments that any producer of this sort of stuff has made in 2018.
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Allison makes disorienting electronic miniatures under the name Mukqs, Chami makes cannibinoid ambient music as TALsounds, and Kaplan aims for absurdism as MrDougDoug, and today all three members are releasing new solo tapes as part of a so-called "family batch" on Hausu Mountain, the label that Kaplan and Allison run together.
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Youarelisteningtolosangeles.com, the brainchild of California native Eric Eberhardt, combines Los Angeles police scanner audio (though if LA isn't your bag, there are a number of other city options including New York and Chicago as well as an option to create your own similar page) with ambient music from Soundcloud, and cityscape images from Flickr.
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Eno—who was currently in the midst of transitioning from a rock and pop songwriter to an ambient music pioneer—helped conceptualize and contributed instrumentals to Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy," a trio of albums blending the emotionally impactful songwriting Bowie had become known for with electronic experimentation, inspired in part by German groups like Kraftwerk.
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It's less than a half hour long, but because of its strange mixture of styles—from modern ambient music, to Romantic composition, and back again—and its insistence on focusing audience members on the past (like South American revolts) and future (think arachnoid humans), it's strangely transportative, forcing you to observe the whole arc of history from the outside.
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This year's installment of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival brought more than a dozen events to New York beginning in late April, and the lineup was characteristically impressive and diverse: a then-and-now excursion through ambient music history; a live-band tribute to Patrick Adams, a sleeper disco legend; a conversation with the experimental composer Alvin Lucier.
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Occurring between those two phenomena, there was a brief but enthusiastic propagation of bands who tried on the murky and obscure end of old school death metal—bands like Grave Miasma, Dead Congregation, and Necros Christos took on the gurgling sound of Pennsylvania's Incantation, and made it sound so vile and cavernous that it skirted the line between ambient music and death metal proper.
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Indeed, on the whole, I would give the prevailing manners of the eight co-working spaces I visited over the course of a week a grade of B or B+. The resting of broken limbs on nearby seats is infrequent and pre-advertised; the volume of both the ambient music and the workers' conversations is low, but not the kind of whispery low that begs for eavesdropping.
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Pandering at it's finest, but taken up a notch by painting their target demographic as a tired and false stereotype of a people lacking refinement/culture to understand how to eat foreign foods and an over-the-top embellishment of cliché ambient music, comical pronunciations of foreign names/words, and Chinese subtitles (English added by us), which begs the question—who is this video actually for?
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Nick Zanca, the producer and songwriter who once recorded head-nodding beat music as Mister Lies, has a new band called Quiet Friend that explicitly channels the droning synth work and mannered melodies of the many strains of easy listening music and sophisti-pop, as well as new age and ambient music (styles themselves having a renaissance in non-experimental spheres for the first time in a while).
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This playful stance towards the meaning of "fast" and "slow" is, I think, also true of the twin poles of Private Parts as an LP. Heard at the level of the arrangement, there is a deeply self-similar flatline of formal sameness to each of these pieces, which is why, if you stand at a certain distance, one can receive them as more or less workable examples of "ambient" music.
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It involved two spaces: the "Darkness Room," painted black and hung with silver streamers, evoking a nightclub after the party is over, in which Jeremy Friedman read stories and letters of breakups and loss; and the "Light Room," rose-hued, draped with red and pink fabric, filled with balloons and echoing with spiraling ambient music, in which Heather Morowitz read love letters written between Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin during their long and illicit affair.
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