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Furniture music. Furniture music, or in French musique d’ameublement (sometimes more literally translated as furnishing music), is background music originally played by live performers. The term was coined by Erik Satie in 1917.
Furniture were a British new wave band, active from 1979 to 1991. The band is best known for the 1986 top 30 hit, "Brilliant Mind".The longest-serving and best-known line-up of Furniture (from 1983 to 1990), comprised founder members Jim Irvin (vocals), singer/multi-instrumentalist Tim Whelan and drummer Hamilton Lee, plus bass player/occasional singer Sally Still and keyboard player Maya Gilder.
- London, England
- 1979–1991
Furniture. Furniture is a British pop band that was active from 1979 to 1991. The groups members consisted of Jim Irvin on vocals and percussion, Tim Whelan on guitar, Hamilton Lee on drums, Sally Still on bass, Maya Gilder on keyboards, and Larry N’Azone on saxophone.
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Shave also describes Eno’s 1978 album Ambient 1: Music for Airports a direct answer to Satie’s call for “music that would be a part of the surrounding noises.” You can hear all of Satie’s furniture music (selections of which appear embedded here) performed by the Ars Nova Ensemble at Ubuweb. “It seems to have ...
Background music is commonly played where there is no audience at all, such as empty hallways, restrooms and fitting rooms. It is also used in artificial space, such as music played while on hold during a telephone call, and virtual space, as in the ambient sounds or thematic music in video games. It is typically played at low volumes from ...
Furniture. The British pop band Furniture was founded in London in 1981 by vocalist Jim Irvin, guitarist/pianist Tim Whelan and drummer Hamilton Lee. A 1983 self-financed EP, The Boom Was On, won the trio a contract…. Read Full Biography.
This paper considers ambient music in a comparative perspective. Taking the 1950s as a mirror time axis, I suggest comparing Erik Satie's ideas on Furniture music (1920s) to Brian Eno's notions of ...
