Music beyond airports: appraising ambient music
"The ambient Century reveals the drift in twentieth-century music. From composers to non-musicians. From strict rules to no rules. From the single note to the sample. From the expanding classical horizons of Mahler, Satie and Debussy to the revolutions in electronic music inaugu…
Introduction: reading the air -- Background music of the avant-garde: the quiet boom of Erik Satie -- The sound of embodied security: imaginary landscapes of ambient music -- Moving with the rhythms of the city: ambient video attunements -- Soft fascinations in shallow depth: co…
'Ambient Media' examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan, and specifically media as a resource for personal mood regulation. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie…
The debate over the question of the sustainability of development has been for some time underway in relation to the environment and to public health. More recently attention has turned to other aspects of sustainability as well, now that a generally accepted meaning of the term…