Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports'
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Music for Airports Is Alblum
To be in an airport is to be in the underworld. You're preparing to take an action which for thousands of years was reserved for the dead. And i think that is part of the spatiality of an airport. It's built into it and he has tapped into it, so that when we listen to ambient music, like music for airports is alblum, we are actually getting a little closer to the essence of what an airport is. Strangely, the weirdness of airports and weirdness of spaces and music and all the other stuff too. But i just wanted to bring that out because it really struck me.
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