why is ambient so popular now

[shiels]

Always thought that sounded like a MssingNo tune played backward.

yes 45 secs in sampled here and its very mssingno

 

[Leo]

 

[version]

RIP.

Harold Budd Dies, Aged 84 | The Quietus

Avant-garde and minimalist composer Harold Budd has died, aged 84. News of Budd’s death first emerged via a number of Facebook posts from his close friends, paying tribute to the late artist. One such post says that he passed away on December 7. No cause of death has been given. Close...

thequietus.com

 

[Leo]

yeah, that's why I posted it. it's a recording of Budd playing solo piano in memory of his late friend Jim Tenney.

 

[version]

yeah, that's why I posted it.

Assumed so, but anyone who didn't already know the news wouldn't have been able to tell.

 

[thirdform]

The two tendencies in 'ambient' - experimental avant performance and amorphous chill muzak out are practically diametric opposites.

Noise is not meditative.

not in terms of crossing your legs and sinking into yourself, and chanting om with a mix of incense and a hippy's smelly socks wafting at your nostrils but it is def meditative in the all consuming spinning vortex turning the world upside down, accelerated typhoon sense. Static everything is infinitely preferable to the static nothingness of medieval surfdom.

 

[woops]

not in terms of crossing your legs and sinking into yourself, and chanting om with a mix of incense and a hippy's smelly socks wafting at your nostrils but it is def meditative in the all consuming spinning vortex turning the world upside down, accelerated typhoon sense. Static everything is infinitely preferable to the static nothingness of medieval surfdom.

agree, noise music has to be heard coming out of a big speaker larger than life whereupon it will take on a totally different dimension which is as close to meditative as listening to mellow tones washing through you on your hi fi headphones. i think

 

[woops]

sublime as the second of crackle when you plug in your electric guitar

 

[Murphy]

ambiente is Spanish for environment (i think), if that means opening up the valve so be it

 

[DLaurent]

For me it's because of confined living space. Bedroom listening. Getting older. No house parties for me. A conservative time and the antidote to it. There's still only one or maybe two producers I like listening to and that's Rod Modell. I have his album Dawn, Dusk and Darkness with pictures of Barcelona and it's deep. There's the field recording element to it that grounds it in the real but he put out this sample CD for example. Most of it's a bunch a sounds from cool synths but if you listen to tracks like Thought Experiment, there's some thought put into the music too... not just one note drones with some glitchy sounds thrown in and on the other hand definitely not new age-y.

echospace [detroit] presents: "echoes in space" (4.2 GB Sound Library), by echospace [detroit] presents:

130 track album

echospacedetroit.bandcamp.com

 

[sufi]

Tonight tonight

Mixcloud

www.mixcloud.com

9pm

 

[Leo]

Tonight tonight

Mixcloud

www.mixcloud.com

9pm

whose show...yours?

 

[sufi]

whose show...yours?

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
our beloved Droid and his drone-squad

 

[line b]

 

[Corpsey]

This is probably old news to ambient/drone/new age aficionados but to me it's all new and brilliant:

 

[woops]

oh i see that's 30 seconds of each track how annoying

 

[woops]

now i have to click the link to spot ify

 

[Corpsey]

 

[Corpsey]

So good

 

[chava]

The two tendencies in 'ambient' - experimental avant performance and amorphous chill muzak out are practically diametric opposites.

Experimental avant performance has nothing to do with ambient.