Ambient

6 articles related to Ambient:

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...
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... 1 comment
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...
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...
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... 1 comment
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...