“I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.”
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Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening, ' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
