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I'm from Essex in the UK and just signed up to this forum. I've been into ambient music for many years - serious ambient is the classical music of the 21st century!
It's great to find a forum for this music. I was discussing ambient with a friend who is into the same artists and we agreed that it's very difficult to listen to ambient with someone who doesn't like it.
I learnt various instruments as a kid and then played bass and guitar in a couple of small time bands. Over the past few years I've been slowly learning about making my own ambient and dark ambient music, something I wanted to do years ago but the advent of the computer and soft synths and sound processing makes it so much easier (not to mention cheaper!)! I started exploring ambient music creation about three years ago but then pressures of life intervened (as they often do) and I didn't have time to pursue it. Recently however I've had more time and will be posting some tracks to Soundcloud in the near future.
The kind of ambient I like is Steve Roach (he seems to have a Midas touch); Alio Die; Eno (in his early ambient phase, particularly On Land); and more but those are the main three. I've always thought that no matter how dark or ominous the mood, the sound itself should be pleasant on the ears, like dark velvet, as its the vehicle for the mood created.
Plus, a word about my forum name. It's derived from Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (google it - it's entirely beneficial!) and any tracks I make public will be under that name. I think anyone who likes ambient music most probably has ASMR, I know I do - it's the name for a pleasurable physical response to small sounds, e.g. rustling paper, rain, stones rubbing together, running water, etc.
Anyway, enough rambling for now. See you all around the forum...
I'm from Essex in the UK and just signed up to this forum. I've been into ambient music for many years - serious ambient is the classical music of the 21st century!
It's great to find a forum for this music. I was discussing ambient with a friend who is into the same artists and we agreed that it's very difficult to listen to ambient with someone who doesn't like it.
I learnt various instruments as a kid and then played bass and guitar in a couple of small time bands. Over the past few years I've been slowly learning about making my own ambient and dark ambient music, something I wanted to do years ago but the advent of the computer and soft synths and sound processing makes it so much easier (not to mention cheaper!)! I started exploring ambient music creation about three years ago but then pressures of life intervened (as they often do) and I didn't have time to pursue it. Recently however I've had more time and will be posting some tracks to Soundcloud in the near future.
The kind of ambient I like is Steve Roach (he seems to have a Midas touch); Alio Die; Eno (in his early ambient phase, particularly On Land); and more but those are the main three. I've always thought that no matter how dark or ominous the mood, the sound itself should be pleasant on the ears, like dark velvet, as its the vehicle for the mood created.
Plus, a word about my forum name. It's derived from Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (google it - it's entirely beneficial!) and any tracks I make public will be under that name. I think anyone who likes ambient music most probably has ASMR, I know I do - it's the name for a pleasurable physical response to small sounds, e.g. rustling paper, rain, stones rubbing together, running water, etc.
Anyway, enough rambling for now. See you all around the forum...
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