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Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Ambient 1: Music For Airports cover
Studio album by Brian Eno
Released 1978
Recorded London & Cologne, 1978
Genre Electronic Music
Ambient
Experimental
Length 48:32
Label EG , Polydor
Virgin , GRT
Producer Brian Eno
Professional reviews
  • All Music Guide 5/5 stars link
  • Pitchfork Media (9. A studio album is an original collection of new tracks by a recording artist Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948 commonly known as Brian Eno (ˈiːnoʊ is an English Musician, producer London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production Ambient music is a Musical genre in which sound is more important than notes Experimental music is a term introduced by composer John Cage in 1955 In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music EG Records was a UK -based artist management company and Record label, mostly active during the 1970s and 1980s Polydor Records is a Record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Virgin Records is a British Record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948 commonly known as Brian Eno (ˈiːnoʊ is an English Musician, producer allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork, is a Chicago -based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary 2/10) link
  • PopMatters (Positive) link
Brian Eno chronology
Before and after Science
(1977)		 Music For Airports
(1978)		 Music For Films
(1978)

Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) is an Ambient music album by Brian Eno. PopMatters is an international Webzine of cultural criticism Its scope is broadly cast on all things pop culture Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948 commonly known as Brian Eno (ˈiːnoʊ is an English Musician, producer Before and after Science is a 1977 album by Brian Eno. It is less experimental than its predecessor Another Green World, containing eight Music for Films (1978 is one of Brian Eno's ambient albums It is a Conceptual work intended as a soundtrack for imaginary films Ambient music is a Musical genre in which sound is more important than notes Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948 commonly known as Brian Eno (ˈiːnoʊ is an English Musician, producer

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Overview

This was the first of four albums released on Eno's own, then new, Ambient label to actually carry the name "ambient" - a term which he coined to differentiate his minimalistic approach to the album's material and "the products of the various purveyors of canned music"[1].

Notice of similarly quiet, unobtrusive music had been given on albums such as Evening Star, Discreet Music, Music for Films and Harold Budd's The Pavilion of Dreams (which he produced), but in this album it was given precedence as a full-blown concept. Evening Star (1975 is an album by the British ambient musicians Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. Discreet Music (1975 is an album by the British ambient musician Brian Eno. Music for Films (1978 is one of Brian Eno's ambient albums It is a Conceptual work intended as a soundtrack for imaginary films Harold Budd ( May 24 1936) is an American ambient / Avant-garde composer The Pavilion of Dreams is the second album from composer Harold Budd.

The music was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent to defuse the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal. It was installed at the Marine Air Terminal of New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport in New York City remains the only active airport terminal dating from the first generation The City of New York LaGuardia Airport (ləˈɡwɑɹdiə is an airport located in Queens County on Long Island in the The City of New York.

Track listing

The track labelling is the way it is because of the album's first release (1978) as an LP, and so the first track means "first track, first side", and so on. A gramophone

  1. "1/1" : Acoustic & electric piano – 16:30
  2. "2/1" : Vocals only. – 8:20
  3. "1/2" : Vocals; acoustic piano. – 11:30
  4. "2/2" : Synthesizer only. – 9:30 (listed on most packaging as 6:00)

The music

The back cover features four abstract graphic notation images, one for each track.
The back cover features four abstract graphic notation images, one for each track. Musical graphic notation is a form of Music notation which refers to the use of non-traditional symbols and text to convey information about the performance of a piece of music

See Miscellanea for citations.
All tracks were composed by Eno except "1/1", which was composed by Eno, former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt, and Rhett Davies. Soft Machine was an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945 in Bristol) is an English Musician, and founding member of the influential

Music for Airports employs the phasing of tape loops of different length in some tracks, where, for example, in "1/1", a single piano melody is repeated and at different times other instruments will fade in and out in a complex, evolving pattern due to the phenomenon of phasing: at some point these instrumental sounds will clump together, at some points, be spread apart.

Talking about the first piece, Eno has said:

“ . . . I found this very short section of tape where two pianos, unbeknownst to each other, played melodic lines that interlocked in an interesting way. To make a piece of music out of it, I cut that part out, made a stereo loop on the 24-track, then I discovered I liked it best at half speed, so the instruments sounded very soft, and the whole movement was very slow. ”

The two tracks containing the wordless "aaaaah"-style vocals intermingle four tracks which loop back on themselves and constantly interact with each other in new ways. Subtle changes in timing occur, adding to the timbre of the pieces.

Eno explains of the vocal-only piece:

“ One of the notes repeats every 23 seconds. It is, in fact, a long loop running around a series of tubular aluminum chairs in Conny Plank's studio. The next lowest loop repeats every 25 seconds or something like that. The third one every 29 seconds or something. What I mean is they all repeat in cycles that are called incommensurable — they are not likely to come back into sync again. Your experience of the piece, of course, is a moment in time, there. So as the piece progresses, what you hear are the various clusterings and configurations of these six basic elements. The basic elements in that particular piece never change. They stay the same. But the piece does appear to have quite a lot of variety. ”

2/2, the synth piece, was performed with an ARP 2600. The ARP 2600 is a semi-modular analog subtractive audio synthesizer, designed by Alan R

Credits

Versions

Country Label Cat. Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945 in Bristol) is an English Musician, and founding member of the influential Konrad "Conny" Plank (frequently spelled Planck) ( May 3, 1940 in Germany – December 18, 1987 in Cologne No. Media Release Date
US Editions EG EGS 201 LP 1978
US Polydor AMB 001 LP 1978
France Polydor 2310 647 LP 1978
Canada GRT 9167-9835 LP 1978
Italy Polydor 2310 647 LP 1978
US Editions EG EEGCD 17 CD Aug 1990
UK Virgin Records ENOCD 6,
7243 8 66495 2 2		 CD 2004

Miscellanea

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Brian Eno, September 1978, from the liner notes of Music for Airports

External links


Ambient 2/The Plateaux of Mirror is a 1980 album by ambient musicians Harold Budd and Brian Eno. Ambient 3 / Day of Radiance (1980 is an album by the American ambient musician Laraaji (alias Edward Larry Gordon which was produced by Ambient 4 / On Land (released April 1982 is an album by the British ambient musician Brian Eno.
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