Music beyond airports appraising ambient music

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 Airport...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Ambient@40 International Conference (-)
Other Authors: Adkins, Monty, editor (editor), Cummings, Simon, editor
Format: Electronic
Language:Inglés
Published: Huddersfield University of Huddersfield Press 2019
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009660850606719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • How much world do you want?: ambient listening and its questions / David Toop
  • Space in the ambience: is ambient music socially relevant? / Ambrose Field
  • A question of background: sites of listening / Ulf Holbrook
  • Three manifestations of spatiality in ambient music / Richard Talbot
  • The steady state theory: recalibrating the quiddity of ambient music / Simon Cummings
  • Fragility, noise, and atmosphere in ambient music / Monty Adkins
  • Channeling the ecstasy of Hildegard von Bingen: "O Euchari" remixed / Lisa Colton
  • Ambient house: "Little Fluffy Clouds" and the sampler as time machine / Justin Morey
  • Adaptive game scoring with ambient music / Axel Berndt.