Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports [Full Album]
“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”
- Brian Eno
Ambient music in airports blending with noise, evoking holiness, mortality confrontation, and the banal yet remarkable human experience.
TRANSCRIPT
And secondly, they can't even get the bloody player to work properly. so we're going to crash.
You know, you can use music as a mask, which is what is normally done in public situations as a way of covering up the noise. Or you can use music that invites the noise to sound like it's part of it.
So with all of that kind of music, what I call ambient
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The creation of music to alleviate anxiety by cultivating different modes of attention and shifting one's perspective.
TRANSCRIPT
So I wanted to make flying feel like a more spiritual experience, if I had to put it into a sentence with a controversial word in it.
And by that, I mean, I used to be very frightened of flying.
And of course, I had to do it at that time in my career.
And I thought, well, what about if you could make a kind of music that made you less worried about
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