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Ambient 1/Music for Aerodrome (1978) is one of Brian Eno's first ambient albums. Music for Airdrome employs phasing tape loops of different length withwithin occasionally tracks, in which, for instance, in "1/1", one soft melody is repeated & at different days more instruments might segue around & retired, & this happens pseudorandomly due to the phenomenon of phasing: at a select few point these subservient sounds might clump together, at a bit of points, become spread apart.

A music on this album was designed to exist as day and night looped as a healthy installation, by owning a intent to defuse a tense, anxious atmosphere of an air terminal. It was installed at a Marine Air Terminal of New York’s LaGuardia Airport.

A 1st 3 tracks on the album come thin compositions by using moments of silence between notes. A previous track (“2/2�) occurs as smooth, billowing, electronic texture.

Track listing
A track labelling is thus because of the album's number 1 release (1978) as an LP, then a foremost track means "first track, first side", then in.

  • "1/1" : Acoustical piano, electrical piano & synthesizer - 16:39
  • "2/1" : Vocals sole. - 8:25
  • "1/2" : Vocals & acoustical piano. - 11:36
  • "2/2" : Synthesizer exclusively. - 9:38

    Tons tracks were composed by Eno except "1/1", which was composed by Eno, Robert Wyatt, and Rhett Davies.

    A back cover features four abstract graphic notation images, one for every track.

    A Bang on a Can All-Stars, an offshoot of the Bang on a Can music festival, arranged Music for Airdrome for survive musicians. It keep around played their arrangements on the road & for the Video freed inside 1997 by Point Music.

  • Musthear: Brian Eno - Ambient 1- Music for Airports
    Review by Joseph Buck. "It's an album about listening. It's an album about hearing."

    Epinions: Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
    Multiple member reviews. "...a fairly definitive image of where ambient music came from."

    The Ward Against Silence: Brian Eno and Bang on a Can Allstars - Music for Airports
    CD reviews of the Brian Eno and Bang on a Can All-stars recordings.

    Almost Cool: Brian Eno - Ambient 1- Music For Airports
    Fan site review. Rating 8.25. "...whether you like it or not depends on your tolerance of both repetitive-ness and the quiet nature of the music itself."

    All Music Guide: Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
    Review by Linda Kohanov. 5 stars. "They can hang in the background and add to the atmosphere of the room, yet the music also rewards close attention with a sonic richness absent in standard types of background or easy-listening music."

    The Onion A V Club: Bang On A Can - Music For Airports
    Review by Joshua Klein of this Brian Eno composition. "The new rendition only differentiates itself from the original in the most mundane ways, like instrumentation and recording fidelity. But as an intellectual exercise, the effort is incomparable."






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