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From Wiki
The term "ambient music" was first coined by Brian Eno in the mid-1970s to refer to music that can be either "actively listened to with attention or as easily ignored, depending on the choice of the listener" (Eno, who describes himself as a "non-musician" termed his experiments in sound as "treatments" rather than as traditional performances). Hence, Brian Eno is considered the father of ambient music: his 1978 release Ambient 1: Music for Airports includes a manifesto describing this music. Although having coined the phrase "ambient music", he is also quick to reference the works and influence of Erik Satie and John Cage, in particular Cage's use of chance as in using the I Ching to influence the contents of a musical composition. Eno coined the term in an essay to distance his work from elevator music and Muzak, it is more often similar to mood music or an ambient background in movie and radio sound effects.
From Opiumblue
This is early tape to tape work using samples and a tascam 4 track. All the tracks where predominantly analogue with no computers ( until the later traks) recorded and processed using various rooms to re-record for analogue signal processing.
What has become known as "Circuit bending" was then known as "Breaking stuff". The bulk of the destroyed electronics where telephones and telephone answering machines.
I will upload new tracks from the past year or so in a few months, until then suffer ( or not ) the analogue sounds.
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