Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports'
Soft, soothing, and understated as a rule, ambient music may seem the least weird of all musical genres. Not so, say JF and Phil, who devote this episode to Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports, the 1978 album in whose liner notes the term "ambient music" first appeared. In this conversation, your hosts explore the aesthetic, metaphysical, and political implications of a kind of music designed to interact with the listener -- and the listener's environment -- below the threshold of ordinary, directed awareness. Eno and Peter Schmidt's famous Oblique Strategies, a deck of cards designed to heighten and deepen creativity, lends divinatory support to the endeavor.
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REFERENCES
\n\nBrian Eno, Ambient 1: Music for Airports
\nGabriella Cardazzo, Duncan Ward, and Brian Eno, Imaginary Landscapes
\nOblique Strategies Deck
\nTheodore Adorno, Introduction to the Sociology of Music
\nMarc Auge, Non-Places
\nAnahid Kassabian, \u201cUbiquitous Music\u201d
\nSigmund Freud, \u201cOn Transience\u201d
\nWeird Studies, Episode 104 on Sgt. Pepper
\nJoris Karl Huysmans, A Rebours
\nRoger Moseley, Keys to Play