Sound.../... Hearts of Space. Hearts of Space. History[edit] Production details[edit] Related projects[edit] The Hearts of Space radio show has spawned a number of related projects, including the Hearts of Space Archive, a commercial ambient-music streaming service[13] started in 2001, and a record label started in 1984, Hearts of Space Records (including 5 divisions, sub-labels or label imprints:[14] Hearts of Space Records, for the core space music; Hearts O' Space,[15] for Irish/Celtic albums; World Class,[16] for world-music albums; Fathom,[17] for sounding the deep, dark ambient albums by artists such as Robert Rich and Steve Roach; and RGB, for soundtrack and pop-oriented electronic albums).
The record label released nearly 150 albums over the course of its existence; it also licensed and released European albums in the U.S. Best Ambient Music Of All Time ( Top 25 ) Best ambient music of all time lists are quite popular on the internet.
While waiting for some mixes to render I came across this list by "Darktremor" over at "listology". Writings....essays....musique concrete. Musique Concrete - All sounds can lead to music - A brief history. When did it all start?
It isn’t really possible to say when the notion of music first started. Cavemen may well have stamped their feet, clapped their hands, used a couple of stones to tap-out a beat, even experimented with strange hollering noises as some very primitive form of singing [after all, even in the digital age, your voice is still by far the most powerful musical instrument available to you!]. There was no means to record sound in pre-historic times; we can only guess at what they were doing. We certainly know that music existed well before the days of the printing press, and we can track the development of musical instruments from pipes, percussion, early stringed instruments and pianos to the guitars and keyboards we know today; in the Western world we can easily trace the development of what might be termed traditional instrumental music.
The big bang Roll forward ... Roll forward, and enter the digital era: We can Where did it all start? In Europe. The Bottomless Well: A Natural History of Ambient Music – #1. Epsilon: Ambient Music, Beginnings and Implications, by Chris Melchior. Ambient music has arisen recently out of many diverse roots in music and the arts, and has implications that are varied and interesting because they overlap with so many fascinating concepts in art, science and philosophy.
DEFINITIONS OF CONCEPTS: Music, fractals, ambient From Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary of the English Language, unabridged, the definition of music is "the science or art of incorporating pleasing, expressive or intelligible combinations of vocal and instrumental tones into a composition having definite structure and continuity," or alternatively :- "Vocal or instrumental sounds having rhythm, melody or harmony. " i.e. music is defined as only consisting of vocal or instrumental sounds, and it is implied that it has linear rather than fractal structural qualities (see the definition of fractals, below).
The word fractal has no exact definition, but is defined in terms of the characteristics of fractals. 20 best: Ambient records ever made. Words: Tony Marcus First published in FACT:26 (June/July 2008)
The Discreet Charm of Ambient Music - The New Yorker. I first discovered ambient music in college, when I was a late-night d.j.
My show at the campus radio station started every Thursday at midnight and ran until five. From midnight through two-thirty, I played uptempo rock songs for a party that I knew happened almost every week, somewhere near Philly. (I had a phone relationship with the partiers, who would call me up to tell me how “awesome” my show was.) Electric Fling: Rattling Hum: Ambient Music's Alternate Realities. Electric Fling is a Pitchfork column about the world of electronic music by Andy Beta.
A1 “White Blur” This week saw the circuitous release of a record old enough to be deemed “electronica”: Richard D. James’s 1994 album made as Caustic Window, which got as far as the pressing plant and five white-label vinyl copies before being shelved, the music itself only whispered about. You can read as to just how this item came into existence in the 21st century elsewhere, but while not exactly revelatory on its own, Caustic Window—taken in the context of James' ludicrous mid-'90s hot streak—marks 1994 as a prolific and wide-ranging year for the man best known as Aphex Twin. Ambient music. Ambient music includes forms of music that put an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.
Ambient music is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual"[2] or "unobtrusive" quality.[3] To quote one pioneer, Brian Eno, "Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting. "[4] As a genre it originated in the United Kingdom at a time when new sound-making devices such as the synthesizer, were being introduced to a wider market.
Ambient developed in the 1970s from the experimental and synthesizer-oriented styles of the period. Ambient had a revival towards the late 1980s with the prominence of house and techno music. AmbientMusicGuide.com - A Guide To Essential Ambient & Downtempo Albums.
27 essential ambient production tips. Inspired by the likes of Philip Glass and Brian Eno, ambient music is as much about creating mood as it is creating melody.
Fortunately, computer users can now call upon an arsenal of ambient-friendly production tools – MusicRadar is here to explain what they are and how to use them. 1. If all the soft sounds and smooth vibes get a little too much, try some juxtaposition. Ambient heroes The Orb are fond of this technique, and whether it's a squealing guitar, devastating synth hit or ridiculous vocal sample, they're not afraid to toss something a little unusual into the mix. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
The creation of Ambient music (for musicians and artists) I have been a musician for many years, but it is not until now in the latest years I have got a deep interest in ambient music, especially Steve Roach & Robert Rich but also a lot of dark ambient such as Asianova etc.
I have been creating mostly extreme metal in the past, I have been adding synth pads etc, but now I have come to a point where I want to make ambient music professionally. Since I am a metal guy I am not so sure about the basics about the process of the creation of ambient music. Of course I know a lot already, as that Reverbs are very important, but I really not sure how to create such deep and warm/cold drones as Roach or R.Rich, so really all information tips and advices are very welcome. I have tried many many virtual instruments for computer, recently I did also discover that an control unit for my virtual instruments would open up whole new possibilities to "morph" sounds in real-time, feel free to recommend me control units as well.
Encyclopedia of Electronic Music - Ambient Guide. Index Classic Ambient Pioneered by Brian Eno and Harold Budd, this is the original form of Ambient music. Soft, lush, flowing sounds and melodies. Calm atmosphere, very serene and detached. Perfect to relax to.