{"title":"Space in the ambience: Is ambient music socially relevant?","authors":"Ambrose Field","doi":"10.5920/beyondairports.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/beyondairports.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384067,"journal":{"name":"Music Beyond Airports - appraising ambient music","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123731410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Channelling the ecstasy of Hildegard von Bingen: \"O'Euchari\" remixed","authors":"Lisa Colton","doi":"10.5920/beyondairports.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/beyondairports.07","url":null,"abstract":"Abbess Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) became an unexpected cult figure in the final decades of the twentieth century, when her life and work were used as the stimulus for numerous cultural products, from imagined autobiographies to film. Her adoption as a quasifeatured artist by creators of electronic dance music (EDM) was surprisingly commercially successful, chiming with Michael Embach’s view that:","PeriodicalId":384067,"journal":{"name":"Music Beyond Airports - appraising ambient music","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122888062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A question of backgrounds: Sites of listening","authors":"Ulf A. S. Holbrook","doi":"10.5920/beyondairports.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/beyondairports.03","url":null,"abstract":"In 1951 John Cage entered an anechoic chamber at the University of Harvard. He expected to hear silence; what he heard has now become a legendary anecdote about this experience. Twenty-four years later from his sick bed, Brian Eno had a revelatory experience of listening to music through a broken hi-fi while confined to a hospital bed. Although several years apart, these two individual experiences both stimulated new modes of engaging with, creating, listening to and understanding music. These two distinct creation myths (to use Seth Kim-Cohen’s description1) are reference points from which the discussions in this chapter develop. The intent in this chapter is to examine the site of listening in which these two events took place, not the physical locus itself, but as the contextual site in which these two events took place: namely, the ‘background’. The discussion of ambient music will be centred around Brian Eno’s Discreet Music (1975) and Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978). Ambient 1 was the first mention of the term ‘ambient music’, yet the roots of what led to this development are evident in Discreet Music. All references to ambient music will be based on Eno’s liner notes from these two albums. By focussing on the background, we can pose several questions: How can we understand the sonic foreground if we do not consider or disregard the sonic background? What role has the background for the contextual perception of what is in the foreground? I will argue that the background is the context which supports our listening, and that this contextual presence is","PeriodicalId":384067,"journal":{"name":"Music Beyond Airports - appraising ambient music","volume":"7 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122108324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How much world do you want? Ambient listening and its questions","authors":"D. Toop","doi":"10.5920/beyondairports.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/beyondairports.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384067,"journal":{"name":"Music Beyond Airports - appraising ambient music","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130654098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fragility, noise, and atmosphere in ambient music","authors":"Monty Adkins","doi":"10.5920/beyondairports.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/beyondairports.06","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter will examine how contemporary experimental ambient music engages with notions of fragility, the aesthetics of atmosphere, and the use of noise to engender a more active listening experience than that proposed by Brian Eno in 1978.1 Although rather at odds with the generally accepted innocuous nature of ambient music – one that “tints” the environment – I propose that, through engaging with these concepts, composers can encourage different ways of listening to and thinking about ambient music, as well as reintroducing the sense of “doubt and uncertainty”2 that Eno originally ascribed to ambient music. In doing so, I mean to demonstrate that ambient music is far from being a contemporary comfort blanket to block out the perceived problems, or overwhelming influx of information, in society but is a genre that, at its best, can offer a reflection of contemporary culture and thought. In order to do this, I will present a framework for discussing ambient music, drawing on, and developing Nomi Epstein’s notions of fragility, Torben Sangild’s tripartite consideration of noise and Gernot Böhme’s aesthetics of atmosphere.","PeriodicalId":384067,"journal":{"name":"Music Beyond Airports - appraising ambient music","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117000215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ambient house: 'Little fluffy clouds' and the sampler as time machine","authors":"J. Morey","doi":"10.5920/beyondairports.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/beyondairports.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384067,"journal":{"name":"Music Beyond Airports - appraising ambient music","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134334140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}