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He’s not a pianist
- All of these masterly performances feature the keyboard-lead ambience of Harold Budd. Only, they don’t. He’s not a pianist. “No, I cannot play the piano,” said Budd.
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Budd developed a style of piano playing he deemed "soft pedal," which can be described as slow and sustained. While he is often placed in the Ambient category, he emphatically declared that he was not an Ambient artist, and felt that he got "kidnapped" into the category.
Dec 10, 2020 · Budd did not have many colors, but he was their master, as the saying goes. The primary hue in his palette was a snowy-white piano texture so smudged with soft pedal and sustain that it's like...
- Simon Reynolds
Feb 25, 2014 · He's a pianist without a piano, a composer reluctant to compose. Tim Jonze finds Harold Budd unable to explain how he ended up the godfather of ambient. Tue 25 Feb 2014 13.59 EST. I t's a strange...
- Tim Jonze
Dec 9, 2020 · The core Budd sound of yearning piano motifs and reverb-laden impressionism is often called minimalism. But compared with the cyclical craft of Steve Reich and early Philip Glass, his low-key,...
Dec 17, 2020 · Published Dec. 17, 2020 Updated Dec. 21, 2020. Harold Budd, a composer and pianist known for the preternatural spaciousness and melancholy calm of his music, and for his collaborations with...
Dec 15, 2015 · Martin Longley. Returning to New York for a rare concert, the composer, whose work with Brian Eno helped shape ambient music, explains he’s not scared to sound pretty. Tue 15 Dec 2015 06.00 EST. T...
Dec 8, 2020 · To make this shift, Budd began teaching himself piano — an instrument he’d long avoided, balking at the notion that all composers needed to be keyboardists — and wound up developing a highly ...
