About this episode

The episode explores Brian Eno's 'Ambient 1: Music For Airports' and its significance in the ambient music genre.

This 1979 instrumental record is considered the beginning of ambient music by many of its listeners. We unpack Eno's intentions behind the function of such music, while considering his goal of provoking his listeners to contemplate their own death. We also do our best to define Ambient Music for ourselves and resist the pull of academic dissection of artistic experimentation. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: Ambient 1: Music For Airports Sources: https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-music-for-airports/ https://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/oct2001/interview_judy_nylon.html https://inmotionmagazine.com/eno1.html https://www.loudersound.com/features/mad-as-tits-but-successful-a-brief-history-of-eg-records http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/unk-78b.html http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/MFA-txt.html https://pitchfork.com/features/podcast/brian-eno-music-for-airports-review/ http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/musn79.html Lysaker, J. T. (2018). Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for airports. Oxford University Press…

People in this episode

Hosts: Christian Sager, Charlie Bennett

Topics covered

• ambient music
• Brian Eno
• music analysis
• artistic experimentation
• contemplation of death

Keywords

• ambient music
• Brian Eno
• Music For Airports
• instrumental record
• artistic experimentation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oxford University Press, Continuum, Bloomsbury Academic

Books & works: Ambient 1: Music For Airports

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