Ambient Music

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Title of the text: Ambient Music
Author/s: Mike G
Title of journal/publication:  Ambient music guide
URL/Web Address: http://ambientmusicguide.com/history-of-ambient
Main Idea:
Ambient music is a genre of music that is intended to relax, the genre creates an "atmospheric", "visual", or "unobtrusive" quality that can enhance the mood of a person.It was created by Brian Eno, an english musician, sound designer and conceptualist. Eno's concept of ambience is music that can be either actively listened to or used as background, depending on whether the listener chooses to pay attention or not.

Evidence/s that support/s the main idea:

"Brian Eno defines it as music "designed to induce calm and space to think".
Still, ambient is perhaps the slipperiest of all musical genres. Certainly instrumental music to chill-out to had been around for a long time before Eno chose to define it, in forms as diverse as Gregorian chants from the middle ages to certain forms of psychedelic rock from the late 60's."

"One of ambient music's prime sources is the 20th century classical avant-garde. Among the pioneers were two late-19th Century composers, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie. Satie's concept of "furniture music" for solo piano or small ensembles now seems surprisingly congruous with Eno's concept of ambience: creating a sound environment that complimented the surrounds rather than intruded upon it. More musically direct but just as subtle and suggestive was the work of Debussy, who's wandering, impressionistic tone poems like "Prelude To The Afternoon Of The Fawn" (1894) heralded a new openness in Western music and broke all kinds of rules in structure and linear composition."                                          

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