Monty Adkins Simon Cummings Music Beyond Airports Appraising Ambient Music University of Huddersfield Press by Desconocido

Author:Desconocido [Desconocido]
Language: spa
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-17T11:25:54+00:00

music beyond airports

harnessed in the steady state is the most fundamental and compelling means by which to manifest Eno’s ‘ignoresting’ dichotomy. The inevitable tension between its poles of ephemeral change and eternal immobility result in what David Toop has lyrically described as,

[…] drifting or simply existing in stasis rather than developing in any dramatic fashion. Structure emerges slowly, minimally or apparently not at all, encouraging states of reverie and receptivity in the listener that suggest (on the good side of boredom) a very positive rootlessness.61

The tension in steady states, mirroring the nature and action of the universe and capable of being perceived and interpreted from both intra- and extra-musical perspectives, is thus a palpable and vivid way to elicit the ambivalent responses of engagement and disinterest in the listener that were, are and always will be the quiddity of ambient music.

61 David Toop, Ocean of Sound (London: Serpent’s Tail, 2001), ii.

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