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Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking composition, beat, and/or structured melody, [5] ambient music uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening, [6] and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation.
Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, modern classical music and even noise. It is chiefly identifiable as having an overarching atmospheric context.
Ambient. Ambient dub; Dark ambient. Ambient industrial ... A Theory of Popular Music Genres: Two Applications. In Popular Music Perspectives, edited by David Horn and ...
Ambient is anything but a singles genre. The album form is made for the beatless drifts that define ambient music, which developed meaningfully in the mid-‘70s from a general zeitgeist for a non ...
This is a list of ambient music artists. This includes artists who have either been very important to the genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as those who have been on a major label). This list does not include little-known local artists.
Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial music [1] [3] that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones.
Ambient music – a style of incredibly slow electronic music that uses long repetitive sounds to generate a sense of calm and atmosphere. Ambient house – a style of house music that contains the atmospheric musical textures of ambient music. Ambient pop – a style of dream pop with heavy ambient influence that developed in the 1980s.
Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport began a live music program five years ago and now has two stages featuring local artists. Tami Kuiken, the manager of airport music in Seattle, said the Seattle-Tacoma airport launched its live music program about a decade ago after a city commissioner heard live music at the airport in Austin, Texas.