#ambient 4

[ambientworld]

A photographic response to Brian Eno’s Ambient 4: On Land

"I wanted to try and soak up what was within the space and use the music to instigate my response to it”

[the-entangler]

Lizard Point

[vinyl-connection]

AMBIENT 1 - 4 (Eno, Budd/Eno, Laraaji, Eno)

[one-track-daily]

Brian Eno Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) (1982)

From the album: Ambient 4: On Land (Editions EG)

[djohnhopper]

SATURDAY MORNING VIBE_

Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land [6 Hr Stretched Version] (Full Album)

[djohnhopper]

SATURDAY MORNING VIBE:

Lizard Point (Remastered 2004)

[heavenlymusickcorporation]

Albumtober Day 5: Ambient 4 (On Land)

(Prompt: A life soundtrack album)

Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land (1982)

I'm not pretentious enough to think that that any lyrical album that a songwriter might create from their own life and experiences would be a fitting soundtrack to my life and experiences; I'm pretentious in an entirely different way, so for today's prompt I've selected the fourth entry in Brian Eno's "Ambient" series. Eno has said a lot about his philosophy of ambient music, and instead of clumsily paraphrasing him, I'll just quote him: "Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."

A lot of Eno's ambient works would serve well as soundtracks, and some of them already have. I chose On Land for today's prompt because the tracks, whose titles mostly reference various geographical features, carry a certain sense of unease and melancholy that unfortunately seems to apply to my life. The locations referenced are in England, but the names ("Lantern Marsh", "Dunwich Beach", etc.) could just as easily refer to places in coastal New England. (Dunwich, in particular, should ring a bell for anyone familiar with the works of H.P. Lovecraft.)

Over all, On Land could easily be the soundtrack for a bizarre, eerie, and artistic film, perhaps a psychological slice-of-life, about someone who lives all their life among the salt marshes of Massachusetts, stagnating, yearning for travel and excitement and someplace else, yet remaining forever trapped in that land of salt and fog and serene natural beauty. When you put it that way, it doesn't sound so bad.

[one-track-daily]

Brian Eno Dunwich Beach, Autumn 1960 (1982)

From the album: Ambient 4: On Land (Editions EG)