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Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise.

" 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. "

— Brian Eno (Music for Airports liner notes [1], September 1978) 

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Entropy Music
Home of free MP3 and Real Audio files of electronic and ambient music, including Enigma, Deep Forest, Delerium, Vangelis, and Waterbone.
Disquiet Ambient/Electronica
Contains articles, interviews, bibliography, and web resources of interest to ambient and electronica music fans.
Feedback Monitor
Weekly radio show and monthly column covering the latest in electronic and experimental music.
Sleepbot Constructs
Most famous for the "Ambience for the Masses" ambient music informational archive - the largest of its kind on the web.
The Gathering Concert Series
Listing of live concerts featuring ambient, electronic and spacemusic artists. With show dates, news, compilation information, and links.
Ambien music guide
A really pretty web site with lots of resources about ambient music.
Epsilon
An information archive, featuring official pages for Axiom, The Orb, the Fax label, Touch and Ash International, EST Magazine, Solarworld, plus EnoWeb, the definitive Brian Eno site, plus articles and documents relating to ambient music, and a comprehensive list of ambient links.
The Philadelphia Ambient Consortium
News and connections focused on ambient music in the Philadelphia area. With event listings, broadcasts, artist profiles and links, publications, labels, and stores.
The Ambient Ping
Toronto's weekly live ambient music performance art event. With sound files and links to featured artists, flyer art, and schedule.
The Ambient Music Mailing List Archives
Subscription information and text-based/GNU-zipped message archives from October 1994 through the present.
SOMA
Radio with lots of amazing music... stream it while you work!
Calmscape
Radio, community, reviews etc...
Electronic music foundation
Important institution in America!

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On January 9th 1979 the wily zygote found itself in its final
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coming of the 21st century's premiere vixen of C-sound ambient music...



Severine Charlotte Baron


Sev, as she's called bipedally by friends and colleagues, is capable of
the most transfixing and euphoric atmospheres this side of the womb.
Beautifully disturbing as well as Orca-calling, Sev's sonic down
comforters can make any John Cage novice quit music school and become a
Nyquil addict. A taffy stretcher of the finest sine waves, her music
can massage the skins on the eardrums of any self-anthropomorphized
android looking to defrag its life. Solid State geeks will wander,
minimalists will mingle and stoners may soar, but Baron's music is in
its own class of ambient music. In fact, if Eric Satie composed musical
furniture, Severine creates musical sense-depravation tanks. With
everything from C-sound to Logic, Soundhack to blah, blah, blah and a
rich taste for synthesis mutation at her fingertips, Baron's work shows
how binary next to French can be the most alluring yet challenging
language to harness.


If Richard D. James has bastard children who carry on his forte for
classical piano, Sev may very well qualify. Of course, Severine may be
born of truer Alien and Gelfling DNA than even Richard would concoct.
Paralleled with sheer virtuosity on the ebony and ivories, her piece
"Out! I Said"mildly reflects her piano days in a short Reason-sequenced
piece akin to Chopin going through an exorcism.


Her talent for granular synth-moding is a true testimony to what
happens when out-of-body experiences somehow find their way into
computers. Till this day she cannot stop conversing with the voices.
Her therapist and dealer (software, of course) says she's gonna be just
fine. Nevertheless, being farthest from anything post-hippie or New
Age, Sev's strange proclivity for astral projection has inspired a lot
of these C-sound pieces. And thank you for choosing Air Baroness...


The Sirens of today have a new medium. The modern Pandora's Box is now
a laptop, and The Mists of Avalon have all been digitized, low passed
and time compressed. Where once there needed placenta, gurney and
strain, now trequires hard drive space and endless imagination.
Severine Baron's work gives birth to new atmosphere. And where there is
fresh air you need only ears to breathe it.



Written by Steve Abagon

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