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Yeah, yeah, I know. Once again, you reveal yourself unable to be
even a little imaginative, elastic, or thoughtful in your responses
to other people on the internet.<br>
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He said it right here in your quote, Mr. Davis.<br>
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"This presented what was for me a new way of hearing music – as part
of the ambience of the environment just as the colour of the light
and sound of the rain were parts of the ambience.”<br>
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A new way of *hearing* music. In a religious ritual, the gathered
faithful practicing their _religion_ is absolutely a part of the
ambience. Even as an atheist it is totally possible for me to
comprehend that for some, religious ritual can occur assisted by
music, and then that music can entirely fall out of primary sensory
comprehension once reaching the appropriate state. Whether it is
inside or outside of primary sensory focus is up to the individual
in that space.<br>
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The Qawaal musics in Pakistan achieve the same thing for the Sufi,
but people would not call it ambient, I suppose, due to the rhythmic
and melodic nature of the practice.<br>
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It's clear you've never had such an experience in your life - the
kind that the Gregorian chant people were going for. There are many
ways of getting there, and I hope that you have access to at least
one of those means in your lifetime.<br>
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<div> <font face="EB Garamond">I don't know... chant musics
are frequently intended to bring on a trance in the
listener. Chants are used in the ritualistic events that
underpin certain cultures, traditions, religions, etc.<br>
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I've been brought to places while in a deep focus (aided
by chant musics) that parallel experiences I've had on
psychoactive drugs.<br>
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In that sense, Eno's description is sort of perfect to
me. Gregorian chant was used to induce religious focus,
so the music itself does sort of fall out of primary
consideration when "used" correctly.<br>
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class="gmail_default">Eno absolutely meant "ignorable" in
the normal dictionary way. He did not mean
"trance-inducing", or "religiously focused". Eno's coinage
had absolutely nothing to with "inducing" anything.</div>
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class="gmail_default">Eno remembers the event somewhat
differently. “After she had gone, and with considerable
difficulty, I put on the record,” he recalls. “After I had
lain down, I realised that the amplifier was set at an
extremely low level, and that one channel of the stereo
had failed completely. Since I hadn’t the energy to get up
and improve matters, the record played on almost
inaudibly. This presented what was for me a new way of
hearing music – as part of the ambience of the environment
just as the colour of the light and sound of the rain were
parts of the ambience.” <br>
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class="gmail_default">All this sounds like a recipe for
boredom, and for many people that’s exactly the result
when they listen to Music for Airports. For others, the
fact that the music is so quiet and so content to
circulate such thin little scraps is the secret of its
appeal. Eno himself describes the album as being “as
ignorable as it is interesting”. <br>
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href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/how-brian-eno-created-a-quiet-revolution-in-music/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/how-brian-eno-created-a-quiet-revolution-in-music/</a>)<br>
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harshly to me citing the Daily Telegraph ]<br>
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