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unusual facts about ambient



A.P.Valves

The scuba equipment manufacturer A.P.Valves or Ambient Pressure Diving is at Water-Ma-Trout in Helston in Cornwall in England.

Adam Wiltzie

Although he may be best known for founding the seminal ambient classical projects Stars of the Lid, The Dead Texan, Aix Em Klemm, & A Winged Victory for the Sullen, he also has recorded, played, and worked as a live sound engineer for famed artists such as The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Labradford, Bedhead, The Bad Livers, Windsor for the Derby, Iron & Wine, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hauschka, and Sparklehorse.

Ambient device

The New York Times Magazine announced ambient devices as one of the Ideas of the Year in 2002 on the heels of a start-up company, Ambient Devices, releasing their first product Ambient Orb, a frosted-glass ball lamp which maps information to a linear color spectrum and displays the trend in the data.

Andrew D. Huxley

Quantum fluctuations are enhanced at the QCP, destabilising the conventional phase that dominates under ambient conditions, making conditions propitious for the emergence of a novel unconventional phase such as superconductivity, or possibly even more exotic states.

Approaching Silence

Approaching Silence is a compilation album of ambient music by David Sylvian (along with Frank Perry and Robert Fripp) collecting the tracks from the 1991 limited release Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory installation soundtrack CD as well as the soundtrack cassette from the installation "Redemption" (with Robert Fripp), staged in August 1994 at the P3 Gallery in Tokyo.

April Records

April Records is a Danish record label (based in Copenhagen, Denmark) specialized on Scandinavian electronica music: from ambient to techno and trip hop.

Awayland

The track, "Passing a Message", was initially nine minutes long, with O'Brien describing it as "a big, ambient soundscape that peaked in the middle," which was inspired by astronomer Carl Sagan's writings.

Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive

Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive is the first release by ambient/trip-hop duo Arms and Sleepers, and was positively received.

Boltzmann-Matano analysis

Two alloys with different concentration would be put into contact, and annealed at a given temperature for a given time t, typically several hours; the sample is then cooled to ambient temperature, and the concentration profile is virtually "frozen".

Clive Williamson

Clive Williamson formed the UK group Symbiosis in 1987, making ambient, soundtrack and healing music with founder-members flautist John Hackett and Richard Bolton (guitars and cello).

Collimator sight

The reticle is illuminated by an electronic light source (an incandescent light bulb or, more recently, a light-emitting diode) or by ambient light gathered behind the reticle via an opalescent window or fiber optic light pipe.

Day of Radiance

This album is the third edition of Eno’s Ambient series, which began in 1978 with Music for Airports, and was preceded by The Plateaux of Mirror.

Egaro

Mayukh-Moinak’s music is very good but the background score by Arijit Singh is a bit too loud drowning the ambient sounds and the dialogue at some places.

Erik Wøllo

Erik Wøllo has also collaborated and released album works together with some of the most respected artists in the ambient music world: with Steve Roach ("Stream of Thought", CD-2009 & "The Road Eternal", CD-2011), Ian Boddy ("Frontiers", CD-2012), Bernhard Wöstheinrich ("Arcadia Borealis", CD-2009), and several others.

Ethnoambient

Ethno ambient is related in spirit to techno tribal, ethno techno, and especially to "Fourth World" music and "ambient" music, launched in the late 1970s by Jon Hassell and Brian Eno, respectively.

Extracts from Music for White Cube, London 1997

Extracts from Music for White Cube, London 1997 is an ambient Installation album from British musician Brian Eno, released in 1997.

First Encounter Tour 1996

First Encounter Tour 1996 was recorded at various concert venues around the United States in 1996 and was produced by noted keyboardist and ambient musician Tim Story at Zeta in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Heather Steans

Co-sponsoring SB 3346 with State Representative Karen May, Steans passed a bill reducing mercury in the ambient environment by improving the material’s collection and recycling from thermostat units.

Hibernation

Obligate hibernators are defined as animals that spontaneously, and annually, enter hibernation regardless of ambient temperature and access to food.

HM Capital Partners

Hicks Muse acquired Nestlé's Ambient Food Business in 2002, which added well-known UK brands Crosse & Blackwell, Branston Pickle, Chivers (marmalade), Sun-Pat (peanut butter), Gale's (honey), Sarson's (vinegar) and Rowntree's (jelly) to the Premier Foods stable.

I Poo Poo on Your JuJu

The album compiles Elliott's remixes of work by other artists, including Blonde Redhead, Tarwater and Yann Tiersen, together with a rare collaboration with English satirist Chris Morris involving Elliott's music underpinning dialogue from the "Bad Sex" series of sketches from Morris' Radio 1 "ambient comedy" show Blue Jam.

I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse

The download-only package is a .zip file containing a 192kbit/s encoded .mp3 file, a 6-minute QuickTime slide-show of black-and-white photographs set to ambient sounds, and a PDF of the CD insert.

Indecipherable Text

Indecipherable Text couples the first two electronics-heavy releases, Lambent Material (2003) and Talk Amongst the Trees (2005), of Portland, Oregon ambient musician, Matthew Cooper, aka Eluvium, skipping over the solo acoustic piano of 2004's An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death.

Isotopy

Ambient isotopy (or h-isotopy), two subsets of a fixed topological space are ambient isotopic if there is a homeomorphism, isotopic to the identity map of the ambient space, which carries one subset to the other

Laraaji

The result was his most widely-recognized release, Ambient 3: Day of Radiance, the third installment of Brian Eno's Ambient series.

Light-emitting electrochemical cell

In 2012, Ludvig Edman and Andreas Sandström of the Umeå University reported that they succeeded in making organic light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) using a roll-to-roll compatible process under ambient conditions.

Linda Kohanov

She is married to ambient composer and musician Steve Roach (and provided vocals on some of his recordings, such as the 1996 album The Magnificent Void).

McGill EMF Conference

They knew that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was threatening to regulate workplace smoking as a carcinogenic pollutant in the ambient air—and therefore that their old standby claims that the 'smoker made the choice to smoke or not'... that smoking was a personal choice... would no longer excuse the damage to health.

Modulations

Featuring: Rob Young on the pioneers of electronic music, Simon Reynolds on krautrock, Peter Shapiro on disco & post-punk, Kodwo Eshun on house, David Toop on hip hop, Mike Rubin on techno, Chris Sharp on jungle, Tony Marcus on ambient, Kurt Reighley on downtempo, and Michael Berk on the technology of electronic music.

Muirs

Influenced by a wide range of electronic musicians, such as Boards of Canada and Portishead, Muirs combines ambient triphop vibe with an Americanised Rap tradition stemming back from the works of the now disbanded 1017 Brick Squad Records members Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame.

Omar Faruk Tekbilek

He has developed a style that builds on traditional Sufi music, but includes inspiration from ambient electronic musicians, most notably Brian Keane.

Roy Powell

As of 2010 Powell has been moving his musical output to a more progressive Jazz inspired Rock style being active in the trio InterStatic, featuring Jacob Young and Jarle Vespestad, and Naked Truth, the Jazz-Rock / Ambient / Cosmic-Rock Quartet of Powell, Lorenzo Feliciati, Pat Mastelotto and Graham Haynes.

Simon Day

Also in 2005/2006 he collaborated with The Transit Kings on their soaring ambient track "The Last Lighthouse Keeper" which appears on their debut album Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God.

Songs for a Dead Pilot

"Will The Night" is an early, ambient version of the song which later appeared in fuller form on Secret Name.

Spirit Dome

Spirit Dome (2004) is a collaborative album by ambient musicians Steve Roach and Vidna Obmana.

Spirits Burning

Spirits Burning is a musical collective that has released a combination of ambient, jazz and full-on space-rock with input from many of the genre's luminaries, most notably Gong's Daevid Allen and members of Hawkwind.

Star's End

Echoes, a nightly ambient music show produced by music critic John Diliberto.

Steineiche

Steineiche is the first demo produced by the Swiss ambient black metal band Paysage D'Hiver.

Taketo Gohara

In an Ambient and Contemporary Music setting, he has performed live with D. Rad (producer of Almamegretta) and Cesare Picco in various contemporary music and art festivals.

Televise

This recording threw Scott into electronic and ambient textured sounds that the British music compared to Fennesz, Tim Hecker and other modern electronic pioneers.

The Chillout Project

Since its release, the chillout compilations have featured tracks from diverse artists of the electronica, trance, ambient, and lounge music scene such as: Thievery Corporation, Groove Armada, Wamdue Project, Moloko, Bliss, Sade, Roger Sanchez, Chicane, Anggun, and Zero 7.

Vir Unis

Vir Unis (real name: John Strate-Hootman, born October 26, 1969, in Morton, Illinois) is an American ambient-music composer and performer.

Wimme Saari

Wimme Saari combines traditional Sami singing with his own improvisations, usually to a techno-ambient accompaniment by members of Finnish electronic group RinneRadio.

Woob2 4495

Woob2 4495 is the second full-length album from Woob, the stage name of ambient musician Paul Frankland.

Your Body Sub Atomic

The digital download comes with an Adobe flash liner "booklet" (with a looping ambient track) detailing the title tracks story and the remixers, it also comes with a high quality video of the "Feadz 2007 Mix" in .m4v format.

Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers

Genre = Contemporary classical
Ambient


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