Any lovers of ambient?

[Honken]

Burhan Öçal & Pete Namlook - Yenilik Pt. 1.

One of my favorite tracks. Figured it was time to revive this thread, the world could do with some more relaxing these days.

 

[Svperstar]

My favorite source of ambient music for the last 20 years has been sleepbot.com

https://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/broadcast/

I just wish it worked through my work firewall, I can always listen on my phone.

 

[stalepie2]

 

[Multicore]

How do you define ambient?

For me music can have the property of being ambient if it does not seem to require my attention but is interesting if I choose to listen. This definition relates to Eno's but it covers way more than New Age synth music. So by my terms extended gamelan music is ambient, The Meters' first album is too, or Elaine Radigue, of course. Max Richter is not ambient because his music constantly insists upon itself and my attention.

In other words, it's music that can serve as decorative aural wallpaper that can be mostly ignored while you socialize, read, do emails, work etc. but when your choose to give it your attention it's interesting.

 

[Herbert]

Unlike most of the tracks offered here this excerpt from Deep Listening Band's album "The Ready Made Boomerang" uses not a single watt of electronic amplification, relying instead on the remarkable acoustics of Fort Worden's cistern: One notable feature of the park is the 2,000,000 gallon underground cistern, originally built to hold water for fire-fighting in the event that the fort was attacked and put to the torch. The cistern was drained in the 1950s when the fort was decommissioned, leaving an underground space more than 200 feet in diameter and 14 feet deep. This huge subterranean chamber has an acoustical reverberation time of around 45 seconds, and once attracted the interest of various musicians and recording artists, among them Pauline Oliveros, and Stuart Dempster. (Wikipedia) Dempster is an emeritus professor at the University of Washington's School of Music and author of The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press.

Pauline Oliveros was inspired by „Vor der Flut“, a project in Cologne in 1985 where she played, you can see her in Minute 32:

I think he was not mentioned yet, Simon Fisher Turner:

 

[Martin]

I don't listen to ambient much, but this makes me want to play the game Minecraft

I'm surprised nobody else mentioned Minecraft. I love the music in that game:

C418 wrote and performed a lot of it.

Martin