I love ambient music as much as the next person, but in my decades of listening to it, I have come across quite a large number of pieces that I would not generally classify as actual music. There is no one sort of methodology i guess, but there are certainly instances where I hear something and I think to myself. "This is just noise". Sometimes those soundscapes appear to be constructions of modular synths, sometimes they are generations from photos and data, sometimes they are algorithmic compositions. But never are they wholly or necessarily those?
So where do you draw the line? Certainly in the ambient world there are those amongst us who wish to push the limits. Can a raw field recording be ambient or just noise? Can a seemingly random or self generative modular patch be music or is it just noise? Has something just been too much for you or is there a certain quality that makes something more music than noise to you?
So where do you draw the line? Certainly in the ambient world there are those amongst us who wish to push the limits. Can a raw field recording be ambient or just noise? Can a seemingly random or self generative modular patch be music or is it just noise? Has something just been too much for you or is there a certain quality that makes something more music than noise to you?
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