Ambient

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Audio: Ambient

Ambient is a genre of atmospheric electronic music without a distinct rhythm or melody. It creates sonic environments for meditation, reflection, and background listening. Founder: Brian Eno.

Ambient was formulated as a genre by Brian Eno in 1978 with the album Ambient 1: Music for Airports. The concept: music that must be “as ignorable as it is interesting” — music that does not demand attention but creates a mood.

Classics of the genre: Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Tim Hecker, Stars of the Lid, Nicolas Jaar. Today ambient influences pop (Bon Iver, FKA Twigs), neoclassical music (Max Richter's Sleep — an eight-hour work for falling asleep), and film scores (Jóhann Jóhannsson). The Ukrainian ambient scene: Heinali (a Kyiv composer who fuses ambient with Ukrainian folk), Monocube, Endless Melancholy. The meditative nature of ambient resonates with the tradition of Ukrainian sacred music.

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Ambient

Sub-category:: electronic

Ambient is a genre of atmospheric electronic music without a distinct rhythm or melody. It creates sonic environments for meditation, reflection, and background listening. Founder: Brian Eno.

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Sub-category:: vocal

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