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Erik Satie is acknowledged as an important precursor to modern ambient music and an influence on Brian Eno. As an early 20th-century French composer, Erik Satie used such Dadaist -inspired explorations to create an early form of ambient/background music that he labeled "furniture music" (Musique d'ameublement).
Apr 28, 2022 · It wasn’t until the late 1970s that the term “ambient music” appeared. Brian Eno coined the phrase, and is regularly credited with inventing the genre, though he couldn’t have done so without building on the advancements of hundreds of pioneering artists similar to the ones mentioned above.
May 20, 2023 · It’s fair to say that Brian Eno is a revolutionary musician. His efforts and creation of the ambient genre in the 1970s; a time when everything was rock and roll or rock and roll centric, was...
- Gaurav Krishnan
The piece was performed ten years later by an orchestra at the Temple of Dendur, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for the tenth anniversary of the attacks. Anohni (then known as Antony of Antony and the Johnsons) called it “the most helpful and useful music I have ever known.”.
Jan 20, 2016 · It took Brian Eno to coin the phrase “ambient music,” but it’s worth remembering that he did so after playing with German musicians, and after collaborating with David Bowie on “Low”—an album...
- Alex Abramovich
The story behind Eno’s discovery of ambient music is legend. Recovering from an accident, he was given a recording of harp music to listen to. Eno put the record on, settled back into his bed, and quickly realised he’d set the amplifier’s volume too low, with one channel not working at all.
Aug 29, 2019 · Music History: The Pioneers Of Ambient Music. In 1978, Brian Eno released his opus Ambient 1: Music for Airports. In the liner notes, he defined ambient music as a genre, stating that it is music “designed to induce calm and space to think”.
