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Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It may lack net composition, beat, or structured melody. It uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation.
This is a list of ambient music artists. This includes artists who have either been very important to the genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as those who have been on a major label). This list does not include little-known local artists.
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Ambient Music. Written by The Shimmer and Strum Team. Discover ambient music's dreamy soundscapes - its characteristics, evolution from Erik Satie to Eno to post-rock, major subgenres like dark ambient and drone, landmark albums, and modern streaming essentials.
00:00 -00:01. 7,195 123 13. Ambient is relatively rare in that it’s a genre that can be traced back to one artist, and first and foremost, ambient is the creation of Brian Eno. That said, the broader sensibility – music of moods, of environments, sound as part of quotidian experience – has its forebears, some of which we will discuss shortly.
Apr 28, 2022 · published 28 April 2022. From ’50s classical experiments to an antidote to ’90s raves, ambient music has proved to be less of a singular genre, more of a creative ethos. (Image credit: Getty Images) What exactly is ambient music? That’s not such a simple question to answer.
May 15, 2024 · Max Richter’s landmark 2015 piece, Sleep, also for Deutsche Grammophon, has been another major new chapter in the story, not least “Dream 3 (in the midst of my life),” which enters the best ...
Mar 21, 2018 · Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, released 40 years ago, marked the formal beginnings of ambient music. It is still provoking composers and audiences to contemplate new ways of listening.
