ambient music
Noun
Meaning
ambient music (uncountable)
(music) A genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.
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Examples
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.
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.
Although German bands such as Popol Vuh and Tangerine Dream predate him in the creation of Ambient music, Brian Eno played a key role in its development and popularization and is often cited as ambient's founder.
Depending on style and context, world music can sometimes share the new-age music genre, which is a category that often includes Ambient music and textural expressions from indigenous roots sources.
Ambient music played and video art, created by artist Ryan Michael Turek, was projected onto the back wall.