Is Ambient music a dying genre?
It seems like an awful idea for any new artist today to pursue ambient music as a way of income, let alone any recognition. Ambient has gone as far as it can and anything else post would just be redundant of past ambient artists. Brain Eno, Loscil, Fennesz, SOTL, Hecker, Gas, Basinski, Eluvium, ect. have pushed the pitiful line that could be pushed with a genre that has very little room to further experiment with
pure ambient music died back in the 80's when it got bastardized into new age
it's hard to tell but if there's no good ambient music produced in the next decade or so i will be the first to admit it's a dead genre. last decade of ambient has been great though
Drone is pretty much modern ambient, few years ago there were lots of great bands doing it but doesn't seem quit as big anymore.
how to make good ambient music
>use mainly real instruments
>don't make the recording so dense
>don't make drone
>???
>It seems like an awful idea for any new artist today to pursue ambient music as a way of income, let alone any recognition
Dont think many new ambient artists would be interested in making ambient solely for income or recognition.
if you were an artist, you would realize that there are other reasons to make art...
Sound collage and dark/drone ambient is going on ok. Ambient pop is floating on as well.
Grouper comes to mind.
I hate to consider genres desd, especially ambient where it's more of an ideal than a genre.
i see elements of ambient music being incorporated into almost every genre of current music, so maybe its just dead as its own genre?
I think there's a ton of great ambient coming out still. It's not as solid as Eno, maybe, and there's a bigger emphasis on drone than melodic ambient, but it's out there. I keep a running playlist of new releases I'm interested in to listen to later, and probably a good 10-15 percent of the list is ambient, so I know it's still coming out.
Why do you think ambient is a solved genre? Just because you don't personally have any ideas on how to push it forward doesn't mean it's impossible. I mean even the Visible Cloaks record this year created an ambient sound that was new and fresh to me. I think there's a lot of room in ambient to take melodic ideas and deconstruct them, to take melodic ideas that are more structured than Eno's were and deconstruct them into an ambient space more thoroughly, and that's just my own idea.
Great things still coming out of the genre, and I'm sure great things to come.
Yeah I don't think Eno was like "this 20 minute tape loop is going to be the biggest hit single on the radio and make me millions"