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Lantern Marsh
Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)
A Clearing
Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960

"Released in 1982, ’On Land’ is Brian Eno's most mature, perfect ambient work.This recording places the listener alone, in the midst of a massive piece of sonic landscaping. And Eno has left no detail to chance. In fact, the work is so complete that when Eno suggests a windswept plain, the listener gets a chill. When trumpeter Jon Hassell bays with a softly disturbing imitation of a wounded beast, the first instinct is to scan the horizon for its glinting eyes. So subtle, intuitive, and well paced is this recording that as it slips quietly from the speakers and into every corner of the listening room" (zit. nach http://w1.523.telia.com/~u52305192/eno.html).

"An ambience is defined as an atmosphere, or a surrounding influence: a tint. My intention is to produce original pieces ostensibly (but not exclusively) for particular times and situations with a view to building up a small but versatile catalogue of environmental music suited to a wide variety of moods and atmospheres ... Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting" (Brian Eno, zit. nach http://www.enoland.co.uk/beno1.htm).

"[Brian Eno] ist einer der Wegbereiter des Konzepts der "ambient music": ruhige, fließende Klangumgebungen für private und öffentliche Räume, die in Zusammenhang mit dem Raumdesign eine dichte, gefühlsbetonte und teilweise funktionale Atmosphäre erzeugen. Ambient music setzt sich aus Umweltklängen und tonalen, gelegentlich auch atonalen Klangfolgen zusammen, die als klangliche Landschaftsbilder diese Räume akustisch erweitern" (zit. nach http://www2.kah-bonn.de/1/27/0.htm).

LINKS
http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/installations.html
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient