Ambient Music: Avant-garde, New Age, Chill-Out & Cinema

By Jean-Yves Leloup

In this historical, aesthetic, and critical work, Jean-Yves Le Loup explores the multiple ramifications of ambient music. He evokes its sometimes ancestral origins, dwells on the classical modernism of Erik Satie, the inventions of John Cage and the minimalist movement, traces the birth of new age music and the "cosmic" movement of the seventies, before exploring the approach of Brian Eno. Beyond these pioneering figures, this selection follows the trail of this music through its renaissance within the electro scene in the nineties with The Orb and Aphex Twin and demonstrates how, once avant-garde, it conquered the mainstream. Firstly through streaming and even more so through the soundtracks of films and series which, in Hollywood as elsewhere, have, over the past ten years, succumbed to the ethereal atmospheres of this elusive musical movement.

ISBN: 978-2361396671