With this book, Eric Tamm takes one of the deepest looks ever put to paper about an electronic musician. Tamm’s book, Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound, is divided into two main sections. The first is a review of Brian Eno and his work in the context of modern music. This… Read More Eric Tamm – Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound
This sprawling book traces the development of ambient music over the past 100 years, from composers like Mahler and Satie, to current musicians like Moby and Aphex Twin. It covers a huge amount of territory, and serves as an easy introduction to many of the significant composers and musicians of the twentieth century. The Ambient… Read More Mark Prendergast – The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby – The Evolution in Sound in the Electronic Age
Brian Eno‘s first collaboration with minimalist composer Harold Budd, Ambient 2: Plateau of Mirror, was a groundbreaking classic of ambient music. Budd and Eno created beautiful soundscapes, haunted by melancholy piano themes. Their second CD, The Pearl, is even more beautiful.
Neroli oil comes from the white blossoms of the bitter orange tree, and is an expensive pale yellow oil used in fragrances. Neroli is also the name of a 1991 ambient work by Brian Eno that is as exotic and ethereal as the fragrance. Neroli oil is known to have therapeutic effects, including as being… Read More Brian Eno – Neroli
The world of online music seems to be in a constant state of revolution. A new organization, MUDDA, aims to take advantage of this revolution to shift the power of the music industry to artists, so that musicians can receive fair payments and take advantage of the opportunities that the Internet makes possible. MUDDA, the… Read More MUDDA – Eno and Gabriel Behind Music Manifesto
Dark ambient music explores the experimental fringes of ambient music, often using ambient sounds to create an unsettling or even scary soundscape. Dark ambient is rhythmless or uses minimal beats, and may include atonal synthesized washes and sample-based noise effects. One of the earliest examples of what could be considered dark ambient was Brian Eno’s… Read More Dark Ambient Music
An excellent essay by ambient artist Brian Eno appears in the European version of Time magazine. In it , he looks at the changes that have occured in the US since he moved back to England, and especially since 9/11. “Europeans have always looked at America with a mixture of fascination and puzzlement, and now,… Read More Brian Eno – The U.S. Needs to Open Up to the World
Aphex Twin one of the working names for Richard James, an artist with a unique, quirky angle on electronica. His Selected Ambient Works, Volume II, is a set of abstract musical pieces that add to the ambient genre started by Brian Eno. On Volume II, each track is electronic tone painting, that explore a broader… Read More Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works, Volume 2
In 1978, Brian Eno released an album of music titled Ambient 1: Music for Airports. It got little attention at the time, and many of those that listened to it were put off by the lack of any songs or melodies, and because the music didn’t seem to go anywhere.… Read More 25 Years of Ambient Music
New age music is a category for music that tends to be spiritual and contemplative in nature. It is as much a functional category as a stylistic one. New age music is music for reflection, contemplation, stretching, resting, reading and thinking. Unlike “lite” or “easy listening” music, new age music is composed specifically for these… Read More New Age Music
