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Brian Eno 如何创作《Ambient 1: Music for Airports》
How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
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这篇文章深入拆解了 Brian Eno 1978 年的专辑《Ambient 1: Music for Airports》的制作方法，分析这张开创“氛围音乐”流派的经典专辑是如何用磁带循环、合成器与人声采样等手段创作出来的。文章配有音频示例，讲解细致，被认为写得很好。
为什么经久不衰：它把一张影响深远的环境音乐奠基之作的技术手法讲得清晰透彻，多年后仍被反复推荐，对音乐制作人和爱好者都有启发。
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作者用开源音乐编程工具实际复现了专辑的制作手法
这篇文章写得非常好，网站体验也很棒。看起来音频文件可以直接从源文件下载。我把三个 mp3 拖进了 glicol 网页 IDE，写了一段音乐代码来模拟这种循环叠加的做法，通过修改参数可以得到很多变化，希望能帮助大家理解这类音乐是怎么做出来的。
chaosprint查看英文原文
This is a really well-written article and the experience on the website is great. It looks that the audio files are downloadable from the source file. So I downloaded 3 mp3 files from the website, drag-drop them into the glicol web ide (https://glicol.org/tour#samples), and write the following music code: // you need to drag eno_mfa_choir_01.mp3 here \/ and the same for the rest ~t1: speed 0.3 >> seq 60 >> sp \eno_mfa_choir_01 >> lpf 500 1.0 >> mul ~mod1 ~mod1: sin 0.1 >> add 1 >> mul 0.1 ~t2: speed 0.5 >> seq 72 >> sp \eno_mfa_choir_02 >> lpf 600 1.0 >> mul ~mod2 ~mod2: sin 0.2 >> delayms 100 >> add 1 >> mul 0.3 >> mul ~mod3 ~t3: speed 0.5 >> seq 67 >> sp \eno_mfa_choir_03 >> lpf 3000 1.0 >> mul ~mod3 ~mod3: sin 0.3 >> add 1 >> mul 0.2 o: mix ~t.. >> plate 0.1 // by changing the numbers you get lots of variations. // hope this helps you understand better how this form of music is made
补充介绍了 Eno 另一个有趣的实验项目 Portsmouth Sinfonia
Eno 最著名的音乐实验并不局限于氛围音乐。他还参与过一个项目：如果一支管弦乐队由称职的乐手和完全没经验的新手混编，演奏经典曲目会是什么效果？答案是会产生“选择与偶然”结合的独特音乐体验，也是我听过最有趣的音乐之一。请听听 The Portsmouth Sinfonia。
aniijbod查看英文原文
Eno's most celebrated musical experiments were not exclusively confined to ambient music. He was also involved in a project which asked the question: what would it sound like if you created an orchestra which used standard, established musical instruments, playing well-known classical standard themes, but one that was composed of a combination of both fully competent musicians and totally inexperienced and utterly incompetent first-timers? Eno's answer was that you would produce extraordinary musical experiences for the listener which amounted to a unique combination of choice and chance. For me and many others, his translated into some of the funniest musical experiences I have ever known. Please listen to The Portsmouth Sinfonia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpJ6anurfuw
分享了 Eno 关于万年钟项目及其时间观念的演讲见闻
夏天我在一个音乐节上听他演讲，他谈到了近期的项目——万年钟：现代生活随着处理器变快、媒体争夺注意力而被切分得越来越细碎，万年钟是一项为更长时间尺度而设计的艺术工程，每天的钟声都是独一无二的。他拓展创造力边界的方式让我很受启发。
parkersweb查看英文原文
I went to see him speak at a music festival in the summer. He spoke about one of his recent projects - the 10,000 year clock: https://www.solidsmack.com/design/what-jeff-bezos-and-brian-... The idea is that modern living has been divided into smaller and smaller sub-divisions as processors get faster, media competes for attention and attention spans get shorter. The 10,000 clock was an artistic endeavour to engineer and design for a much broader time span - and every day the peal of bells is unique to that day only. I found the way he thinks about extending the bounds of creativity in new ways quite inspiring.
推荐了适合非音乐专业人士的开源氛围音乐制作工具
如果你和我一样不太懂音乐，但喜欢玩循环、氛围音效之类的概念，可以试试完全开源的 Bespoke Synth，它有很棒的进阶功能。一个简单的 MIDI 键盘可以帮你找到好听的音符，然后写进去，还支持 Python 等。
xipho查看英文原文
If you aren't particularly musical, like myself, but love the concept of playing with loops, ambient sounds, etc. give the fully open-source https://www.bespokesynth.com/ a try, it has a brilliant pro tier option as well ;). A simple MIDI source keyboard can help you find the notes that sound pleasing, then you can code them in. Python support, etc. etc.
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