{"id":1490,"date":"2009-03-14T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T23:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:13:59","slug":"music-for-airports-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1490","title":{"rendered":"Music for Airports reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cover\"Brian Eno’s Music for Airports<\/span> (1978) played a very important part in the concept and development of ambient music. One could say that ambient music is not a music to be listened to, but a music to be heard, as a subliminal background creating a soundscape for various places or buildings. Supermarkets and elevators are usually places where a poor music is played, one calls it muzak<\/span>. Brian Eno’s idea was to conceive a sophisticated musical soundscape instead of this anonymous FM music, and he chose airports as the best places where such a music could be heard and understood, creating an unusual and quiet sonic background among all the noises and announcements of a airport terminal.<\/p>\n

Music for Airports<\/span> is a masterpiece, with its subtle piano tracks, its complex electronic treatments, its choral parts, and its slow and organic development.<\/p>\n

In 1998, Point Music, a label directed by Philip Glass, released this amazing interpretation of Music for Airports<\/span> by Bang on a Can: Robert Black (bass), Lisa Moore (piano, keyboards), Evan Ziporyn (clarinet, bass clarinet), Maya Beiser (cello), Steven Schick (percussion), a choir of female voices and additional musicians playing pipa, flute, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, cello, mandolin and mandocello.<\/p>\n

This chamber music ensemble plays Eno’s compositions with fidelity and creativity at the same times. The acoustic instruments create a rich harmonic soundscape and add a very original touch to the original recording.<\/p>\n

This peaceful, quiet and slow music is very evocative and poetic: the cover version is as beautiful as the original…<\/p>\n

Excerpt from Brian Eno – Music for Airports 1.1 – played by Bang on a Can<\/a><\/p>\n

Via Just Another Garden<\/a><\/p>\n

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