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Deconstructing Brian Eno's Music for Airports | Reverb Machine - 0 views

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    "In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn't the first ambient album by any means, it was the first album explicitly released as an 'ambient music album'. The album was essentially a continuation of Eno's experimentation with the tape machine as a compositional tool, as well as his exploration of generative music, music created by systems. In this article I'll discuss how Music for Airports was created, I'll break down and recreate the tracks 2/1 and 1/2, and hopefully give you some ideas about how to adopt this approach yourself."
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What role does ambient music have in society and in musical culture? A new book explore... - 0 views

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    "What role does ambient music have in society and in musical culture? A new book explores how the genre has developed over the last 40 years"
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Ambient at 40: Lawrence English examines the future of a drifting genre - 0 views

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    "As Brian Eno's seminal ambient classic Music For Airports turns 40 this year, Lawrence English examines the genre's impact, its initial manifesto and where it can go as it struggles past its mid-life crisis."
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Silent Echoes Acoustic Visions Series 1 - 0 views

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    A work by Bill Fontana. "Notre Dame has been described as the soul of Paris. As a result of the tragic fire in 2019, its bells have fallen silent. However, these bells were not damaged in the fire and are silently waiting and secretly "listening" to the sounds of Paris around Notre Dame. This is a continuous live streaming sound sculpture that makes audible the simple physical fact that these bells are secretly ringing all the time. I think of this secret ringing as being the heartbeat of Notre Dame. The sounds that the bells produce are created by their harmonic response to the ambient sounds of Paris that surround Notre Dame, as revealed by a live network of accelerometers mounted and live streaming from all ten of the bells. The physical fact that these bells are harmonically excited by the ambient sounds of Paris is a phenomenon that this artwork makes public in a way that will not only be beautiful to hear but will have a healing relevance to Notre Dame's fire, a healing relevance to the suspended sense of time created by the Corona Virus, the tragic war in the Ukraine and the ongoing environmental threat of climate change."
john roach

JEAN JACQUES PERREY : Prelude Au Sommeil - 0 views

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    "The music of Prélude Au Sommeil was intended as sleep-inducing and tranquilizing for use in mental hospitals. It is unclear if the copies pressed actually had been distributed to mental hospitals or if the whole story was just a fantastical joke on the part of Mr. Perrey. This album is known as a precursor of what would later became known as "ambient music", 20 years before Brian Eno, the Kosmic Courier and the American minimalists."
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Scientists Say Ambient Noise Affects Creativity | Anthropology, Psychology | Sci-News.com - 0 views

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    ""We found that ambient noise is an important antecedent for creative cognition," said Ravi Mehta, a professor of business administration at the University of Illinois. "A moderate level of noise not only enhances creative problem-solving but also leads to a greater adoption of innovative products in certain settings.""
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Reviving Radio: An Old Technology Remains Relevant - YES! Magazine - 0 views

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    "When did you last use radio technology? If you're straining to remember when you last turned on the AM/FM radio broadcast receiver in your car, you've probably gone too far back. Although it might not come to mind when we think about radio in the digital media era, things like GPS, wireless computer networks, and even our mobile phones use radio waves.  Far from being outdated, this century-old technology is still integral to much of what we do. "On the one hand, it's very ambient. We don't notice it," says Rick Prelinger, an archivist and professor emerit of film and digital media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "But radio is also deeply engaged with the world." "
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Hvalstad Forest, double SPS200 ambisonics Sound Landscape Development 3 - YouTube - 0 views

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    "'Inversion 3: Speaking Surfaces' is part of the project Reconfiguring the Landscape, which aims to establish a new awareness of our environment. This outdoor versions plays over a specially designed loudspeaker that bounces beams of sound off the surrounding buildings. The documentation was recorded with an EM32 microphone and then transcoded to binaural. Please listen on headphones. About 'Inversion 3: Speaking Surfaces': Using a high-definition 3D microphone, I capture the sound field of the public space in Graz and break it down analytically. I then amplify the unheard sounds, transform and compose with them, and create an enhanced sound picture. The inaudible becomes audible; putatively ambient sounds become an exciting, dynamic event."
john roach

Inversion 3: Speaking Surfaces, outdoor documentation (binaural) - YouTube - 0 views

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    "'Inversion 3: Speaking Surfaces' is part of the project Reconfiguring the Landscape, which aims to establish a new awareness of our environment. This outdoor versions plays over a specially designed loudspeaker that bounces beams of sound off the surrounding buildings. The documentation was recorded with an EM32 microphone and then transcoded to binaural. Please listen on headphones. About 'Inversion 3: Speaking Surfaces': Using a high-definition 3D microphone, I capture the sound field of the public space in Graz and break it down analytically. I then amplify the unheard sounds, transform and compose with them, and create an enhanced sound picture. The inaudible becomes audible; putatively ambient sounds become an exciting, dynamic event."
john roach

Electrosmog Montréal on Vimeo - 0 views

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    "The radiofrequency spectrum is at the heart of telecommunications, used by police, emergency personnel and public transport services, as well as the armed forces. Every day, this spectrum ensures the proper functioning of mobile phones and wireless devices. Seen as an essential resource by some and as a health hazard by others, the electromagnetic fields generated by radiofrequency spectrum activity have multiplied exponentially since humans first learned to harness electricity. In his Electrosmog series, Jean-Pierre Aubé searches out ambient radio frequency activity in the urban landscape of Montréal, which for Aubé forms a singular territory, characterized by its density in the city and by the political and economic issues that accompany it. Equipped with a radio, an antenna, and home-made software, the artist sweeps the titular spectrum of radio frequencies. Every tenth of a second, the device takes a snapshot of its readings - a measure of electromagnetic activity on a specific frequency. This information is then paired with images of Montréal, digitally altered by these same measurements, to create a "documentary in sound" of the city's spaces. Montréal, well-known to the artist after years of radiofrequency experiments here, is the eighth city in which Aubé has measured and visually presented this urban Electrosmog. Electrosmog, Montréal, 01.1 MHz - 144 MHz, 2012 Text from the CCA and Elektra - video abstract original length : 11 minutes - built with Processing"
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Surrounded by Soundscapes: Charles Amirkhanian, Bernie Krause, Walter Murch - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Composer Charles Amirkhanian, soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause, and film editor and sound designer Walter Murch consider the environmental implications and artistic possibilities of aural landscapes and ambient sounds."
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World Listening Day 2015: Mendi + Keith Obadike's "Blues Speaker [for James Baldwin]" (... - 0 views

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    "As Mendi + Keith describe, "For Baldwin sound, music, and the blues in particular were sources of inspiration. The multichannel sound art work meditates on a politics of listening found at the intersection of Baldwinʼs language and the sound worlds invoked in his work. It uses the glass façade of The New School's University Center as delivery system for the sound, turning the building itself into a speaker. The 12-hour piece is created using slow moving harmonies, melodicized language from Baldwinʼs writings, ambient recordings from the streets of Harlem, and an inventory of sounds contained in Baldwin's story 'Sonnyʼs Blues.'""
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Turn Your Kayak Into a Science Lab That Plays Trippy Music - 1 views

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    "Some people prefer utter silence as they kayak down a river. The ambient sounds of birds flapping their wings or water whooshing beneath them is sufficient. Others, however, might opt for a little music. Or how about some eerie, underwater sounds that can help scientists track pollution and climate change?"
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Into the night - moneme - 0 views

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    "This sound piece comes from the experience of walking at night along the path of the Mac Leose Trail in Saikung Country Park, Hong Kong, with stars as the only source for lights. Darkness becomes a useful friend to focus on the ambient noises and rhythms."
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Red Rock Tones - 0 views

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    "Measurements of ambient seismic vibration sped up 25X made audible "
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Meet Japan's ambient soundscapists | Atlas by Etihad - 0 views

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    "The tradition of "environmental music" that began in 1980s Japan has passed to a new wave of audio adventurers. We join them in Tokyo in search of found sounds"
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Brian Eno Composes Calming Music for Hospitals | Mindful - 1 views

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    "Montefiore Hospital in the UK teamed up with ambient music artist Brian Eno in April 2013 to create a Quiet Room where patients can find relaxation and calm. Eno designed a light and sound installation for the room and for the reception area, including an original soundtrack of soothing instrumental tunes. Once the room has had a few inhabitants, there are plans to examine whether the patients who have sought solace there exhibit any beneficial physiological changes."
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Campbient - REALMOREREAL - 0 views

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    "CAMPBIENT is an annual sound art residency that brings together 22 people for 44 hours to conceptualize, produce, and record two sound art compositions in a natural setting. Participants are randomly split into two groups, each responsible for one side of the record, with the only caveat being that a contiguous field recording base track is audible throughout the piece. "
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Zone Sensible 2+ | éric la casa - 0 views

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    "Exclusively composed with/from recordings of bees in the Olivier Darné's hives, located in Saint-Denis, suburb of Paris Going over bee, ears in the wind, we feel the density of real and also throw ourself into this dance of oscillations. From the site specific installation, commissioned by Les Instants Chavirès (France) for La Brasserie Bouchoule during Lieux Communs festival 2007"
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The Sonic Memorial Project - 0 views

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    "SonicMemorial.org is an open archive and an online audio installation of the history of The World Trade Center. We are continuing to collect stories, ambient sounds, voicemails, and archival recordings to tell the rich history of the twin towers, the neighborhood and the events of 9/11."
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