Ambient industrial is a post-industrial music genre that makes use of industrial principles such as use of anti-music, extra-musical elements and shock tactics, but wields these elements with more subtlety. Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of Experimental music, especially but not necessarily Electronic music. Ambient music is a Musical genre in which sound is more important than notes The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located An electronic musical instrument is a Musical instrument that produces its sounds using Electronics. A sampler is an electronic musical instrument closely related to a Synthesizer. Field recording is the technique for capturing the audible illustration of an environment produced outside of a Recording studio. Dark ambient is a subgenre of Ambient music that features foreboding ominous or discordant overtones This is a list of Electronic music genres sub-genres and styles though for the latter not all possess their own article (in which case see the main genre article Additionally, ambient industrial often has strong occultist tendencies, with a particular leaning toward Chaos Magick (the image of the Black Sun is one that comes up repeatedly in post-industrial music), often giving the music a highly ritualistic flavor. The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus (clandestine hidden secret referring to "knowledge of the hidden" Chaos magic is a form of magic which was first formulated in West Yorkshire, England, in the 1970s The two suns in the hermetic tradition There is a persistent belief in alchemaic and Hermetic tradition in the existence of two Suns a hidden one of pure

Overview

Ambient industrial is one of several directions that post-Industrial music took on after the breakup of Throbbing Gristle (the founders of industrial as an art movement) in 1981 ended the industrial period proper. Throbbing Gristle are a British Avant-garde music and Visual arts group that evolved from the Performance art group COUM Transmissions Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of Experimental music, especially but not necessarily Electronic music. Indeed, the last material that TG recorded, at least in the studio, Journey Through a Body and In the Shadow of the Sun, was ambient industrial work and pointed to the direction that several of TG's offshoots (most notably Coil and CTI) would take.

Among the many artists who work in this area are Coil, CTI, Lustmord, Hafler Trio, Nocturnal Emissions, Zoviet France, PGR, Akira Yamaoka, Thomas Köner, Controlled Bleeding, Nine Inch Nails (Ghosts I-IV), early Techno Animal, Robin Rimbaud, Final and Deutsch Nepal. Chris & Cosey are a band formed in 1981 consisting of partners Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti, both previously members of Industrial music pioneers Lustmord is also a German and Swedish word that means Lust murder. The Hafler Trio is a conceptual and sound art collaborative between Andrew M Nocturnal Emissions is a Sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from Electro-acoustic, Musique concrete Zoviet France (also known as:$OVIETFRANCE, Soviet France,:zoviet-france and latterly usually written as:zoviet*france Akira Yamaoka (山岡 晃 Yamaoka Akira, born February 6 1968 in Niigata, Japan Thomas Köner (born 1965 in Bochum, Germany) is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences Controlled Bleeding is an experimental band originally formed in Boston around 1978 by Paul Lemos Jack Salerno and Dave Southerland Ghosts I–IV (also known as Halo 26) is the seventh major studio release by American Industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails and was Robin Rimbaud (born in 1964 in Southfields, London) is an Electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of Cell Final is a project of Justin Broadrick, creator of the band Godflesh, which he started when he was just 13 years old Deutsch Nepal is the solo industrial/dark ambient project of Swede Lina Der Baby Doll General (ex- Njurmännen) It is important to note, however, that many of these artists are very eclectic in their output, with much of it falling outside of ambient industrial. Eclecticism is used to describe the combination in a single work of elements from different historical styles

A "typical" ambient industrial work (if there is a such thing) might consist of evolving dissonant harmonies of metallic drones and resonances, extreme low frequency rumbles and machine noises, perhaps supplemented by gongs, percussive rhythms, bullroarers, distorted voices and/or anything else the artist might care to sample (often processed to the point where the original sample is no longer recognizable). The M acro E xpansion T emplate A ttribute L anguage complements TAL, providing macros which allow the reuse of code across In music a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or Accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout much In Physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to Oscillate at maximum Amplitude at certain frequencies, known as the system's Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός - rhythmos, "any measured flow or movement symmetry" is the variation of the length and accentuation of Entire works may be based on radio telescope recordings (Arecibo Trans-Plutonian Transmissions), the babbling of newborn babies (Nocturnal Emissions Mouths of Babes), or sounds recorded through contact microphones on telegraph wires (Alan Lamb's Primal Image). A radio telescope is a form of directional Radio antenna used in Radio astronomy and in tracking and collecting data from Satellites

Subgenres and related styles

Ambient noise

Ambient noise is a subgenre involving the construction of "noisescapes", that is, soundscapes created out of walls of extreme noise. Closely related to noise music and power electronics, this anti-music may not strike the uninitiated listener as being very close to ambient music. The term Industrial music was first used in the mid-1970s to describe the then-unique sound of the Industrial Records label artists a wide variety of labels and artists have To those more familiar with noise, these works have a distinct ambient quality that distinguishes them from the harsh noise of Merzbow or Whitehouse. is a Noise music project created in Tokyo, Japan in 1979 under the direction of musician. Whitehouse are an English power electronics band formed in 1980 An example would be the distorted low-frequency/high-volume sonics of Daniel Menche, which are evocative of the cthonic sounds of a subway tunnel, an underground boiler-room in a factory, or the afterburner of a jet engine. Born December 4 1969 Daniel Menche is a US musician from Portland Oregon. Other examples of ambient noise would be works by Aube, Arcane Device, some work by NON, and some of PGR's collaborations with noise artists like Merzbow. Aube ( Japanese オウブ) is the name used by Japanese Musician for his experimental noise records Arcane Device was the recording name of musician David Lee Myers from 1987 to 1993 Boyd Blake Rice (born July or December 1956 is an American experimental sound artist under the monicker of NON since the mid-1970s Archivist, Actor

See also

• Dark ambient

External links

• "When All Is Said And Done" by Neil Smith (Ambient Industrial music)
• Brokendolls (fr)
• Repugnant Ambient (per)

Radio stations

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