Music for Airports is Brian Eno's first album of the four album "Ambient" series. Pianos, synthesizers, and textural vocal layers wash in and out in this swirling dreamscape of bliss. The music was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent to diffuse the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal. Eno conceived this idea while being stuck at Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany in the mid-1970s. He had to spend several hours there and was extremely annoyed by the uninspired sound atmosphere [1]. Brian Eno describes himself as an evangelical atheist, which he purposefully embraces as a contradiction, and has been outspoken on political issues for some time [2]. In 1996, Eno and others started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public about the very long term future of society. He is also a columnist for the British newspaper The Observer [3].
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
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