Ambient music refers to a kind of music that envelops the listener without drawing attention to itself. It 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 genre’s music is said to evoke an “atmospheric”, “visual”, or “unobtrusive” quality. Nature sounds may be included, and the sounds of acoustic instruments such as the piano, strings, and flute may be emulated using a synthesizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The genre originated in the 1960s and 1970s, when new musical instruments were being introduced to a wider market, such as the synthesizer. It was presaged by Erik Satie’s furniture music and styles such as musique concr\u00e8te, minimal music, Jamaican dub reggae, and German electronic music, but was prominently named and popularized by British musician Brian Eno in 1978 with his album Ambient 1: Music for Airports; Eno opined that ambient music “must be as ignorable as it is interesting”. It saw a revival in the late 1980s, with the prominence of house and techno music, and grew into a cult following by the 1990s. Ambient music may have elements of new-age music and drone music, as some works may use sustained or repeated notes. As ambient music continues to have successive periods of popularity, the amount of material described in this way is huge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ambient music did not achieve large commercial success, being criticized as everything from “dolled-up new age, \u2026to boring and irrelevant technical noodling”. Nevertheless, it has attained a certain degree of acclaim throughout the years, especially in the Internet age. Due to its relatively open style, ambient music often takes influences from many other genres, ranging from classical, avant-garde music, experimental music, folk, jazz, and world music, amongst others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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