2017/01/01 by John T. Lysaker · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Chemistry · #Music History and Culture #Musicology and Musical Analysis #Diverse Musicological Studies #Active listening #Musical #Assemblage (archaeology) #Function (biology) #Transformation (genetics) #John Cage #Art #Art history #Visual arts #Sociology #History #Performance art #Communication #Archaeology #Chemistry #Biology
paper · doi:10.5325/jspecphil.31.1.0155
openalex publication_date 2017/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
ABSTRACT Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a seminal album in the history of electronic music. Using Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the assemblage, I explore the album's compositional structure as well as its ambient function, by attending to specific tracks and locating the album in musical history, particularly relative to the work of John Cage, La Monte Young, and Steve Reich. In an extended discussion of its ambient function, I argue that the LP offers music for reverie that is capable of initiating processes of potential self-transformation.