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.

I've been brought to places while in a deep focus (aided by chant musics) that parallel experiences I've had on psychoactive drugs.

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.

On 12/10/20 11:06 AM, Paul Davis wrote:

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 1:19 AM david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:

Depends on if you consider "ambient" to mean only instrumental music.
Gregorian and other chant (I live in Hawaii, we have our own chant
tradition) are meant to communicate meaning/feelings through words. In
my opinion, they're also not meant for "background" listening, the way I
think of a lot of ambient music.

Absolutely. The composers and historical performers of Gregorian chant (a distinctly religious music tradition) would likely be rather annoyed to be considered "as ignorable as it is listenable" (the core of Eno's original definition of ambient music)
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