Ambient

6 articles related to Ambient:

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   Synthesizer

   The analog synthesizers of Isao Tomita programming fresh sound for all-time classics

   Japanese composer Isao Tomita was one of the first to explore analog synthesizers in search for new sounds that would…

   July 10, 2019

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   Sitar

   1960s clarinet & sitar duo pioneered an ambient genre with the album for spiritual practices

   Even though the term ambient as a music genre was coined by Brian Eno only in the 1970s, musical experiments of this…

   June 16, 20191 comment

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   Piano

   Gymnopédies: the ambient genre predicted by piano gems of late Romanticism

   The term ambient music was introduced in the 1970s by the famous English experimenter Brian Eno who used newly invented…

   June 2, 2019

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   Contemporary Composer

   North Indian classics introduced into Californian underground thanks to Terry Riley

   Minimalist pioneer Terry Riley remains among the most revolutionary composers of the post-war era. Famed for his…

   July 27, 2018

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   Meditation

   Brian Eno's Airport Music for orchestra

   It is useless to speculate now which direction the genre of ambient might have taken if not for Brian Eno, the revered…

   June 27, 20181 comment

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   Piano

   Ambient and classical mixed on the Orkney Islands

   Erland Cooper is a Scottish producer and musician born and raised on Scottish archipelago of Orkney. Cooper spent years…

   March 14, 2018