TY - BOOK
T1 - Music Beyond Airports
T2 - Appraising Ambient Music
A2 - Adkins, Monty
A2 - Cummings, Simon
N1 - CHAPTER 1 - David Toop
How Much World Do You Want? Ambient Listening And Its Questions
CHAPTER 2 - Ambrose Field
Space In The Ambience: Is Ambient Music Socially Relevant?
CHAPTER 3 - Ulf Holbrook
A Question Of Background: Sites Of Listening
CHAPTER 4 - Richard Talbot
Three Manifestations Of Spatiality In Ambient Music
CHAPTER 5 - Simon Cummings
The Steady State Theory: Recalibrating The Quiddity Of Ambient Music
CHAPTER 6 - Monty Adkins
Fragility, Noise, And Atmosphere In Ambient Music
CHAPTER 7 - Lisa Colton
Channelling The Ecstasy Of Hildegard Von Bingen: “O Euchari” Remixed
CHAPTER 8 - Justin Morey
Ambient House: “Little Fluffy Clouds” And The Sampler As Time Machine
CHAPTER 9 - Axel Berndt
Adaptive Game Scoring With Ambient Music
PY - 2019/7/30
Y1 - 2019/7/30
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Ambient Music
KW - Music for Airports
KW - Fragility
KW - Noise
KW - Atmosphere
M3 - Book
SN - 9781862181618
BT - Music Beyond Airports
PB - University of Huddersfield Press
CY - Huddersfield
ER -