Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports'
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Ambient Music
ambient music should interact with the environment such that you become more conscious, more tive to the idiosyncrasies of a particular environment. So for instance, like you were saying you want your factory workers to improve their performance, you'll have music that makes them forget that they're in a factory. Ino's idea of the interaction with the space that this music would midwife was, to put it mildly, rather different from the calculations of a music companya executive. He writes, i want to make a kind of music that prepares you for dying, that doesn't get all bright and cheerful and pretend you're not a little apprehensivebut which makes you say to yourself, actually,
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