Whether you mark the beginning of the ambient-electronic music genre as the 1978 release of BRIAN ENO’s historic “AMBIENT 1: MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS”… OR…you consider late 19th/early 20th century “Impressionist” composers like CLAUDE DEBUSSY as influences from pre-ambient atmospheric music. OR…you point to musical iconoclasts like ERIK SATIE, who cleverly advocated for an unobtrusive background music that was more like…furniture! OR…you find formal and spiritual resonances in the classical, religious, folk and native music of many cultures.
Taken all together, it’s clear that a sensibility for the slow-moving, space-creating, atmospheric sound at the heart of ambient music is alive and thriving in the 21st century. On this transmission of Hearts of Space…a program called “LONG TONES, SLOW TIME.”
We have a virtual coalition of artists who work with acoustic and electronic instruments, analog and digital synthesis, fractal rhythms, hypnotic drones, and consonant harmony—to create personal psychoacoustic music that expands our sense of space and alters our sense of time.
Music is by CHRONOTOPE PROJECT, STEVE ROACH, MARTIN STÜRTZER, LONEWARD, and PAUL AVGERINOS.