10 Dec
2020
10 Dec
'20
8:06 a.m.
On 09.12.2020 09:22, Paul Davis wrote:
We have:
1) the term "ambient", indisputably coined by Eno
2) the general style "ambient", indeed arguably coined by Satie
(though one might suggest that Debussy and the other more mainstream
impressionists had something to do with it). There's also works like
"in a Landscape" by John Cage (for piano) that clearly predate Eno's
work but embody most of the same elements.
3) Harold Budd, who didn't like the term "ambient" and didn't want
his music labelled that way
And then, there is Gregorian chant that is potentially closer to
"ambient" than any of the above... (and this only if we limit ourselves
to the occidental, and more specifically, West European tradition of
music making).
Michał