History of ambient sound and music.

[Sky High Diamonds]

This is something I'm really interested in, specifically the pioneers and early technology of the 60's, and earlier, that introduced these ambient sounds and encouraged electronic music development. I'm limited to my knowledge (currently) of British pioneers, namely these women: Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram who I love to listen to and have been inspired learning about-there's lots of info on You Tube about these ladies. I would like to know more about an international history and electronic device development in many different countries and how things changed as technology and the social use of tech changed.
Cheers.

[meho]

Here is a documentary manly about the German pioneers.

[Ahornberg]

just have a listen to Karlheinz Stockhausen. there are a lot of videos on youtube from his speakings in 1971 on which he explained the building blocks and algorhythms of his compositions (even from the 50's on).

another interesting group of musicians (they startet out in the 40's) was music concrete http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te

Steve Reich, John Cage and Easley Blackwood come also in my mind.

[GregH]

Bill Fontana is very interesting - using ambient environmental sound http://resoundings.org/Pages/Bill_Fo...t_Library.html his Kirribili Wharf was a revelation to me when I first heard it in 76 or so. Ernie Althoff and lots of other Australian composers were working in ambient sound from the 70s on (eg Rainer Linz). Here are some of Althoff's machines - this is recent but he has been exploring this space for decades

Another Australian ambient artist going back aways is Ros Bandt. Warren Burt is always interesting although not always ambient. His works for tuning forks (designed and built in conjunction with the CSIRO, Australia's peak science body) from the 80s are great. From a similar period Alan Lamb's music for telephone wires

[Ahornberg]

the guy who built this machine had not the intention to make ambient music, but listen ...

[Sky High Diamonds]

the guy who built this machine had not the intention to make ambient music, but listen ...

That-just blows my mind.

[Sky High Diamonds]

From a similar period Alan Lamb's music for telephone wires

i had never heard of this before! I'm so excited by this :biggrin:

[Sky High Diamonds]

Oramics:

I went to an art exhibition back in the summer which celebrated the work of this electronic music and sound maker from 1964. I almost want to give up the VST and the DAW and work with a raw, non digitalised sound! If that's even possible...

[Ahornberg]

maybe she's the "grandma of all drones"

[Ahornberg]

and here an old analog DAW with analog "audio units"

personally I love the sound of such machines :listening:

[Ahornberg]

here another one

[Ahornberg]

In 30 years or so this will be history too :mrcool:

[Negative Spectrum]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Godfather of ambient music, Vladimir Ussachevsky.

[Sky High Diamonds]

personally I love the sound of such machines :listening:

Me too. I wonder what that's about? Some kind of nostalgic feeling or representation. Some great stuff here from you, thank you :biggrin:

[Ahornberg]

personally, i find gamelan or gregorian chorals sounding ambient too.