http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dshrGS1Q4y0

This video captures a presentation by music historian Mark Prendergast at the recent AMBIcon 2013, The Odyssey of Ambient Music.

Prendergast, author of The Ambient Century: From Mahler To Moby – The Evolution in Sound in the Electronic Age, gives a nearly two-hour presentation, his take on the history of ambient music, with music samples and rare images.

Presented at the AMBIcon 2013 Ambient music conference, May 5, 2013, San Rafael, CA. Produced by HEARTS of SPACE, hosted by Stephen Hill.