CHILL OUT: Remixed by ODC1. KLF Online. APHEX SAW II. Richard D. James a déjà fait parler de lui en 1993 avec le premier volume de cette série qui n'avait d'ambient que le nom. Il instaurait un language numérique empli d'émotions et de patterns rythmiques inédits qui allaient très rapidement faire des émules dans ce que l'on a vite catalogué en tant que "intelligent dance music". Avec cet ambitieux second volume, un double album généreux, Richard D.
James décide d'honorer le générique de cette collection ; "Selected Ambient Works Volume II" porte en effet bien son nom, bien mieux que son prédecesseur. Mais une musique d'ambiance crasse, tendue, lourde en signification, inquiétante. On peut se demander si, en fin de compte, Mick Harris ne serait pas venu piocher ici ses influences pour écrire la musique de Scorn qui véhicule les mêmes sentiments ?
L'album s'organise autour d'une multitude de nappes ; tout n'est que textures. RadiOM.org. OSMOS. IGN Review. "Ambient games" might not yet be a prominent videogame genre, but more and more of these tranquilizing experiences are popping up on the indie scene. It's a term Hemisphere Games' Eddy Boxerman uses to describe slower-paced games like flOw, Crayon Physics, and his own Osmos. You won't find any twitchy shooting mechanics, frantic timed events, or macho posturing heavy metal here. Osmos invites you to relax, grow your amoeba-like mote, and enjoy the atmospheric electronica.
I am more than happy to accept the invitation, as this is a beautiful, absorbing experience. Your goal in each stage is to become the big fish in the pond. These motes are delicious! Osmos starts you out at a Biology 101 level, but later stages can definitely get hectic as more aggressive motes are introduced and environmental hazards get in the way of evolution. The primordial ooze that makes up Osmos is brilliant to look at, full of glowing orbs lazily floating amidst the soup. The Verdict IGN Ratings for Osmos (PC) OSMOS Guide. Have you ever had one of those dreams where you are floating around in space, slowly grasping at random objects as they pass by, with no real direction? It should be frightening, but instead you feel a level of calm serenity that you've never felt before. Okay, maybe that's just me, but it is not unlike the feeling that you get when you play Osmos, the award-winning game from new indie developers Hemisphere Games.
If you're looking for something to keep you totally enthralled on a lazy Sunday afternoon, or a calming experience after a long day at the office, the ambient joy that is Osmos is just what the doctor ordered. The main goal in Osmos is simple: you, an amoeba-esque organism known as a "mote," must absorb smaller motes to become bigger. As you proceed through the levels of the game, you will run into different objectives. The orbital levels really show off the mathematical prowess of the game. The ultra silky-smooth graphics are a big part of the overall feeling of the game. A.V. Club Review. ENO.
Guts of Darkness - ENO. Enoweb.co.uk. Oblique Strategies. Strategic Acquisitions. I have some good news for you, and then some bad news. The good news is first. There is a fifth edition of the Oblique Strategies that you can purchase without bidding usurious amounts at auction, as was previously the case. Click here for more details. The great news is that this edition isn't likely to go out of print any time soon. What other kinds of Oblique Stragegies decks can I acquire? While the chances of finding an earlier deck of the Oblique Strategies for purchase may remain slim (more on this later), you can avail yourself of a virtual copy with some ease. There are resourceful netizens who have produced nice javascript and Shockwave versions of the deck, too. I've included a virtual copy for the deck for use and edification of our Mac and Windows-using readers. Here's a Mac OS hyperstack version to download and unpack. Okay. As you already know, there were initially three editions of the Oblique Strategies produced and offered for sale through Eno and Opal in the late 1970s.
Vertical Color of Sound. Ode To Gravity. The Long Now. BellStudies Review. BellStudies CD. "...this album changes the flow of personal time...a meditative, expansive world unfolds with no limits on the imagination. " -CD Baby Brian Eno created this album both as a tribute to Long Now, and as an artistic expression of the vast swathes of time represented by the sheer "long-termness" of the philosophy behind the 10,000 Year Clock.
"When we started thinking about The Clock, we naturally wondered what kind of sound it could make to announce the passage of time. I had nurtured an interest in bells for many years, and this seemed like a good alibi for taking it a bit deeper". Brian Eno The sounds on the album are entirely synthesizer-based, although Eno studied the actual physics of bell tones in order to simulate the kinds of bells familiar to modern ears.
Available for purchase through CDBaby. 77 Million Paintings. Thank you to all who attended the event, and especially our members who made it all possible. The Event The Long Now Foundation presented the North American Premiere of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings for 3 days at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Friday and Saturday evening were absolutely packed with nearly 800 and 1000 attendees, respectfully. Sunday was the Long Now members evening. We were a bit surprised to find that the big crowd for each evening came right at the opening time, leaving the late night crowd with the installation much to themselves. Many people stayed for hours with the installation; it was an incredible sight to see 400 bodies laid out in complete silence, bathed in the glow of 48,000 lumens of high definition imagery.
The Sunday evening members event was a nice change of pace with a few hundred less people who were as much into mingling as seeing the piece, giving the party area and the installation a nice balance of people. The Art. 77M on Flickr. Venice Biennale. AmbientMusicGuide.com - A Guide To Essential Ambient & Downtempo.