@synth_history: Brian Eno on Riverside, 1982. Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports 46 years ago in March of 1978, pioneering the genre of Ambient Music. The series would include Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror, in collaboration with Harold Budd; Ambient 3: Day of Radiance, in collaboration with Laraaji; and Ambient 4: On Land. On Ambient 4, which was released a few months before this interview in March of ‘82, his instrumentation shifted through electro-mechanical and acoustic instruments towards non-instruments, like pieces of chain, frogs, insects and found sound. He describes the term ‘Ambient Music’ in the Music For Airports liner notes: [“Over the past three years, I have become interested in the use of music as ambience, and have come to believe that it is possible to produce material that can be used thus without being in any way compromised. To create a distinction between my own experiments in this area and the products of the various purveyors of canned music, I have begun using the term Ambient Music. An ambience is defined as an atmosphere, or a surrounding influence: a tint. My intention is to produce original pieces ostensibly (but not exclusively) for particular times and situations with a view to building up a small but versatile catalogue of environmental music suited to a wide variety of moods and atmospheres. Whereas conventional background music is produced by stripping away all sense of doubt and uncertainty (and thus all genuine interest) from the music, Ambient Music retains these qualities. And whereas their intention is to `brighten’ the environment by adding stimulus to it (thus supposedly alleviating the tedium of routine tasks and levelling out the natural ups and downs of the body rhythms) Ambient Music is intended to induce calm and a space to think. Ambient Music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”] Ref: Liner Notes, Riverside. #brianeno #synthesizer

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