Ambient Aural Architecture

 "Feeding Frenzy at the Zoo"

Executive Chef Ric Owens was a guest participant on The Food Network Series "Dinner Impossible" with celebrity chef Robert Irvine...the video is in 6 short parts, it is available in the video section, Please take a moment to Register as a member so we can keep in touch with all the upcoming new features.

   ~Sound...sound as waves of energy...energy constructs in space and time..time and space in relation to "Human Aural Awareness"...awareness as floating pieces of sound ambience...ambient sound journey's into what can only be imagined...imagination on the brink of what is possible...unseen possibilities created exclusively for "The Mind's Eye"...with an eye on the future of sound...Sound~ It's the Soundtrack for the Journey...Journey on...

Ric 2009

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At IAMbient Studios we celebrate sound! We create, edit, produce and distribute video projects, ambient music, soundtracks, aural landscapes, music for meditation and reflection...driven by electronic manipulation and sound samples. We feature and promote emerging talented artists and spread our passion for electronic music and ambient arts.

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 WHAT IS Ambient Music?

Ambient music is a musical genre closely related to or also seen as a sub-genre of New Age Music, that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric","visual" or "unobtrusive" quality. Ambient evolved from the early 20th century music of the impressionists, composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman and minimalist composers and early electronic composers of the 1960s and 1970s, to rock musician Brian Eno, who is responsible for coining the phrase ambient music in the manifesto liner notes of his 1979 album Ambient 1: Music for Airports. Wikipedia

"OH! But there's so much more! It is Music for the Journey, sometimes it is the background for inspiration barely noticable kind of like wallpaper and sometimes it is itself evocative of mental imagery taking the participant into their own unique innerscape."Ric Owens,2009

 "..Turn off your mind relax and float downstream..." Lennon and McCartney, 1966

However, Brian Eno (who coined the term Ambient Music) explains it best:    The concept of music designed specifically as a background feature in the environment was pioneered by Muzak Inc. in the fifties, and has since come to be known generically by the term Muzak. The connotations that this term carries are those particularly associated with the kind of material that Muzak Inc. produces - familiar tunes arranged and orchestrated in a lightweight and derivative manner. Understandably, this has led most discerning listeners (and most composers) to dismiss entirely the concept of environmental music as an idea worthy of attention.

Over the past three years, I have become interested in the use of music as ambience, and have come to believe that it is possible to produce material that can be used thus without being in any way compromised. To create a distinction between my own experiments in this area and the products of the various purveyors of canned music, I have begun using the term Ambient Music.

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.

Whereas the extant canned music companies proceed from the basis of regularizing environments by blanketing their acoustic and atmospheric idiosyncracies, Ambient Music is intended to enhance these. Whereas conventional background music is produced by stripping away all sense of doubt and uncertainty (and thus all genuine interest) from the music, Ambient Music retains these qualities. And whereas their intention is to `brighten' the environment by adding stimulus to it (thus supposedly alleviating the tedium of routine tasks and levelling out the natural ups and downs of the body rhythms) Ambient Music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

Ambient Music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

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