Saturday, May 1, 2010

Ambient Music - an introduction and summary

Ambient Music is described by Wikipedia as "a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality."

Ambient music is very different for a lot of people, it can be anything that is "chill", "crazy-sounding", or "meaningful". Few genres have this large scope in reactions, some love it to death and give their life to ambiance and some think it's boring and move on.

With slow focused music such as Ambient and Drone music, the composer creates a more realistic approach to music making and is less filtered as other genres are. What else is important from a composers perspective is that you are not forced to immediately impress as the song in its entirety and the world you create is what is truly important. This all creates much more heartfelt, genuine pieces. Few ambient pieces are gratuitous attempts to make the music just to be cool, all pieces are true expression.

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