Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-049730-9 (ISBN)
To appreciate the album's multifaceted character, Lysaker advocates for "prismatic listening," an attentiveness that continually shifts registers in the knowledge that no single approach can grasp the work as a whole. Exploring each of the album's four tracks and their unique sonic arrangements, Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports argues that the album must be approached from at least three angles: as an ambient contribution to lived environments that draws upon cybernetics and the experiments of Erik Satie, as an exploration of what John Cage has termed the "activity of sounds," and as a work of conceptual art that asks us to think freshly about artistic creativity, listening, and the broad ecology of interactions that not only make art possible, but the full range of human meaning.
If one listens in this way, Music for Airports becomes a sonic image that blurs the nature-culture distinction and rescues the most interesting concerns of avant-garde music from the social isolation of concert halls and performance spaces.
John T. Lysaker is currently William R. Kenan Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He works in the philosophy of art and literature, philosophical psychology, and 19th and 20th century American and Continental Philosophy. His books include You Must Change Your Life: Philosophy, Poetry, and the Birth of Sense, After Emerson, and Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought. Current work includes a general theory of art and an extended inquiry into the nature of friendship.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: White Noise, Seminal Sounds
Chapter One: A First Listen, or Through a Glass Lightly
Chapter Two: Music for Airports and the Avant-Garde: The Activity of Sounds
Chapter Three: Eno's Journey from Art School to the Studio: Becoming a Non-Musician
Chapter Four: Ambience
Chapter Five: Between Hearing and Listening: Music for Airports as Conceptual Art
Crossroads: An Afterword
Sources for Further Reading and Listening
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.12.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Oxford Keynotes Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 line, 37 halftone |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 137 x 206 mm |
| Gewicht | 249 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-049730-0 / 0190497300 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-049730-9 / 9780190497309 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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