what kind of music is ambient?

Answer 1

"ambient" music...

Answer 2

Ambient music is generally instumental and / or wordless. Ambient songs create a mood for the listener, ranging from New-Agey yoga-type stuff to strange and atonal LSD kind of stuff. There is no structure to ambient songs, meaning there is no verse / chorus etc. Ambient songs are never very catchy- you won't get the melody stuck in your head.

Answer 3

Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and noise.

It is sometimes characterised as possessing a sense of resonant sonic space, and of being designed to function equally effectively for both passive and active listening.

“ '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 (Music for Airports liner notes [1], September 1978)


The music is composed from samples and recordings of naturally occurring sounds. Sometimes these samples can be treated to make them more instrument-like. The samples may be arranged in repetitive ways to form a conventional musical structure or may be random and unfocused. Sometimes the sound is mixed with urban or "found" sounds. Examples include much of Biosphere's Substrata, Mira Calix's insect music and Chris Watson's Weather Report. Some overlap occurs between organic ambient and nature inspired ambient. One of the first albums in the genre, Wendy Carlos' Sonic Seasonings, combines sampled and synthesized nature sounds with ambient melodies and drones for a particularly relaxing effect.

Answer 4

Ambient music is very soft and melodic music made primarily with synthesizers such as the music of Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Tangerine Dream or William Orbit.

Ambient can have sound effects from nature and several artists such as Moby have ambient works.

Do a search for ambient on amazon and you'll be introduced to several cd's you can listen to samples of.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_m/002-6264610-5428068?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=ambient

Answer 5

'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 (Music for Airports liner notes [1], September 1978) ...wiki...

Portishead, sigur ros, Aphex Twin, Massive Attack... I think some of the later radiohead borders on being ambient.

Answer 6

Ambient is all of that bubbly, windy wierd music that is supposed to find your center. yeah. weird.

Answer 7

Think Yanni or John Tesh. Instrumental music. Yanni is a great example.