Music Beyond Airports - appraising ambient music
Monty Adkins, Simon Cummings, Axel Berndt, Lisa Colton, Ambrose Field, Ulf A. S. Holbrook, Justin Morey, Richard Talbot & David Toop
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This collection of essays has been assembled and developed from papers given at the Ambient@40 International Conference held in February 2018 at the University of Huddersfield. The original premise of the conference was not merely to celebrate Eno’s work and the landmark release of Music for Airports in 1978, but to consider the development of the genre, how it has permeated our wider musical culture, and what the role of such music is today given the societal changes that have occurred since the release of that album. In the context of the conference, ambient was considered from the perspectives of aesthetic, influence, appropriation, process, strategy and activity. A detailed consideration of each of these topics could fill many volumes. With that in mind, this book does not seek to provide an in-depth analysis of each of these topics or a comprehensive history of the last 40 years of ambient music. Rather it provides a series of provocations, observations and reflections that each open up seams for further discussion. As such, this book should be read as a starting point for future research, one that seeks to critically interrogate the very meaning of ‘ambient’, how it creates its effect, and how the genre can remain vital and relevant in twenty-first century music-making. |
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Published Published By Pages ISBN DOI Chapters July 30, 2019 University of Huddersfield Press 234 9781862181618 10.5920/beyondairports.fulltext 13 Citation Monty Adkins et al. 2019. Music Beyond Airports - appraising ambient music -
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Music Beyond Airports - appraising ambient music has the following Chapters:
- 1 Prelims
- 1 Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 1 How much world do you want? Ambient listening and its questions
- 2 Space in the ambience: Is ambient music socially relevant?
- 3 A question of backgrounds: Sites of listening
- 4 Three manifestations of spatiality in ambient music
- 5 The steady state theory: Recalibrating the quiddity of ambient music
- 6 Fragility, noise, and atmosphere in ambient music
- 7 Channelling the ecstasy of Hildegard von Bingen: "O'Euchari" remixed
- 8 Ambient house: 'Little fluffy clouds' and the sampler as time machine
- 9 Adaptive game scoring with ambient music
- 1 Index
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