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Hammock & Taylor Deupree, Live in NYC

Posted on | October 31, 2008 | No Comments

A couple of Ambient Music Blog favorites, Hammock and Taylor Deupree are teaming up to play a live show November 22nd in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at Monkeytown.

From the Monkeytown site:

“In a special north/south collaboration, Nashville, Tennessee’s melodic ambient duo Hammock and New York sound artist/photographer Taylor Deupree conjure up a stargazing soundtrack with captivating visuals.“

Category: Ambient Music, Live Shows

Of Sirens Born, Raglani

Posted on | October 31, 2008 | No Comments

Of Sirens Born by Raglani on eMusic.com
Of Sirens Born Raglani on Amazon.com MP3 Downloads

Category: Ambient Music, Recommended

Eno - The Studio As Compositional Tool

Posted on | October 30, 2008 | No Comments

“Which puts me in mind of the first piece on Music For Airports (Editions EG). I had four musicians in the studio, and we were doing some improvising exercises that I’d suggested. I couldn’t hear the musicians very well at the time, and I’m sure they couldn’t hear each other, but listening back, later, I found this very short section of tape where two pianos, unbeknownst to each other, played melodic lines that interlocked in an interesting way. To make a piece of music out of it, I cut that part out, made a stereo loop on the 24-track, then I discovered I liked it best at half speed, so the instruments sounded very soft, and the whole movement was very slow. I didn’t want the bass and guitar - they weren’t necessary for the piece - but there was a bit of Fred Frith’s guitar breaking through the acoustic piano mic, a kind of scrape I couldn’t get rid of. Usually I like Fred’s scrapes a lot, but this wasn’t in keeping, so I had to find a way of dealing with that scrape, and I had the idea of putting in variable orchestration each time the loop repeated. You only hear Fred’s scrape the first time the loop goes around.”

from Downbeat, 1979

Category: Interviews

The Lanthanide Series, Kalte

Posted on | October 30, 2008 | No Comments

A nice set of tracks from Canadian duo Kalte available for free download. From the label’s site:

“The harsh Canadian winter served as the backdrop for the creation of these tracks, and while there may be a certain oppressiveness to its roots, the resulting sounds progress from darkness to light.”

Stream the tracks below or grap a .zip of everything.

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Category: Ambient Music, Recommended, Streaming Music

OTTE: Buch der Klange (Das) / Stundenbuch / face a face, Hans Otte

Posted on | October 30, 2008 | No Comments

OTTE: Buch der Klange (Das) / Stundenbuch / face a face by Hans Otte on eMusic.com
OTTE: Buch der Klange (Das) / Stundenbuch / face a face by Hans Otte on Amazon.com MP3 Downloads

Category: Ambient Music, Recommended

Video: O’Hare Ambient Lapse

Posted on | October 17, 2008 | No Comments


O’Hare Ambient Lapse from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.

Category: Video

A Few Things Today

Posted on | October 16, 2008 | No Comments

1. Metafilter thread about Eno’s “Bloom” iPhone application
2. From the Guardian, Brian Eno’s Bloom: new album or ambient joke?
3. Ask Metafilter: I’m looking for ambient music that features short &/or fragmentary bits of monologue or narrative.

Category: Links, Video

Brian Eno “Bloom” iPhone/iPod Touch App

Posted on | October 14, 2008 | No Comments

Brian Eno released an interesting little application for iPhones and the iPod Touch that allows users to create generative music. I haven’t played around with it yet, but it looks, at worst, like an interesting diversion.

Eno says, “Bloom is an endless music machine, a music box for the 21st century. You can play it, and you can watch it play itself.”

What else would you expect him to say?

Download Bloom (iTunes link).

Category: Design, Gear, New Media Art

One More Cliff Martinez Note

Posted on | October 8, 2008 | No Comments

I overlooked a great place to grab Cliff Martinez music the other day when I linked to a few of his soundtracks at Amazon. There’s a good amount of freely available tracks at his official site. Have at it!

Category: Ambient Music, Downloads

Music for Airplanes (Ambient for the New Year 2006)

Posted on | October 8, 2008 | No Comments

A nice, long piece of music I came across by Marko Ahtisaari, available for free download.

Download Music for Airplanes (.mp3).

Stream “Music for Airplanes” by Marko Ahtisaari.

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Category: Ambient Music, Downloads, Recommended
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