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Guybrush 05-08-2010 10:55 AM
Upcoming May Theme Comp : Ambient
 
May Bi-Monthly Upcoming Theme Is : Ambient

Send up to two tracks to : toretorden

Deadline : 20th of May


May's theme, as voted forth by you lot, will be ambient. Wikipedia currently defines ambient music like this :

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.
Another rough characteristic of ambient music is that it doesn't demand your attention. If you don't devote your attention to it, it should be easily "ignorable" unless at very high volume as it sort of provides or flavours the audible background in your environment. Of course that doesn't mean it shouldn't be unnoticeable or boring!

Beyond this simple description, whether or not a slice of music is ambient or not is largely up to you. Find a couple of tracks and send them my way. :)

noise 05-13-2010 06:24 AM
gaaaah it's to hard to decide what to send in! i just started getting into this genre and am excited about too many different artists right now :)

Bulldog 05-13-2010 08:41 AM
I think I've got something in mind. I'll send it along fairly soonish...

Guybrush 05-20-2010 02:34 AM
Hmm, I've only recieved 7 songs so far! I'll keep submissions open until tomorrow. Gimme your third tracks and new potential contributors, send me your stuff! :)

+81 05-21-2010 01:26 AM
Going to send tonight. I hope I'm not too late.

Necromancer 05-21-2010 01:49 AM
Ambient Music
 
(Here is a short article that I found over the internet concerning ambient music) I think that the right term for ambient music is New Age. New Age is peaceful music of various styles, which is intended to create inspiration, relaxation, and positive feelings, often used by listeners for yoga, massage, inspiration, relaxation, meditation, and reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments often associated with environmentalism and New Age Spirituality. The harmonies in new age music are generally modal, consonant, or include a drone bass. The melodies are often repetitive, to create a hypnotic feeling, and sometimes recordings of nature sounds are used as an introduction to a track or throughout the piece. These songs can go beyond 30 minutes of playing.

Guybrush 05-21-2010 03:55 AM
^The right term for ambient music is "new age"? Why shouldn't it just be ambient? :p:

New age is used to describe stuff like Enigma's Return to Innocence or Coldcut's Timber. To me, it makes sense to be able to differentiate between that and, say, Brian Eno's Music for Airports. ;)

Necromancer 05-21-2010 04:51 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by tore (Post 869962)
^The right term for ambient music is "new age"? Why shouldn't it just be ambient? :p:

New age is used to describe stuff like Enigma's Return to Innocence or Coldcut's Timber. To me, it makes sense to be able to differentiate between that and, say, Brian Eno's Music for Airports. ;)
I cant find the article and the name of the editor that did the review I posted right at this minute, I will see if I can get his name & reason for suggesting new age later on today. The only reason I can think of why to use the label new age would be because of all of the other terms associated with ambient music.
disreet music
experimental music
background music
space music
mood music
& elevator music
subtypes of ambient music are:
dark ambient
ambient techno
& ambient trance.

Guybrush 05-23-2010 09:02 AM
It's up! Check it out :)

http://www.musicbanter.com/soundtrac...p-ambient.html

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