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Definition - Experimental and Ambient Music
'Experimental Music' any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
'Ambient Music' relating to our sonic surroundings, emphasising, tonality, atmosphere,
melodic repetition, and unobtrusiveness.
An Introduction to Experimental and Ambient Music
Ebooks, Essays, Thesis, Media on Experimental and Ambient Music
Ebooks
4 Criteria of Electronic Music 1972-1989 Lectures by Karl Stockhausen, London 1971
An Individual Note of Music, Sound & Electronics Daphne Oram, Galliard Books 1972
A Year With Swollen Appendices Brian Eno's Diary by Brian Eno, Faber & Faber 1996
Deep Listening a Composer's Sound Practice by Pauline Oliveros, N.Y. Lincoln 2005
Delia Derbyshire: Sound and Music for the Radiophonic Workshop by Teresa Winter
Electronic and Computer Music by Peter Manning, Oxford University Press, N.Y. 2013
Experimental Music Cage and Beyond by Michael Nyman with Foreword by Brian Eno
Formalized Music - Thought and Mathematics in Composition by Xenakis Iannis 1963
In Search of a Concrete Music - Pierre Schaeffer, University of California Press 1952
Laurie Anderson by RoseLee Goldberg The Library of Congress, Harry Abrams 2000
Ocean of Sound Aether Talk Ambient Sound & Imaginary Worlds by David Toop 1995
Rhythm Science by Paul D Miller, Pamphlet, MIT Press and Library of Congress 2004
Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage, Wesleyan University Press Books 1961
Sound Unbound Sampling Digital Music and Culture by Paul D Miller, MIT Press 2008
Writings on Music by Steve Reich: 1965-2000, New York, Oxford Printing Press, 2002
Youtube Videos
Brian Eno
Mike Andrews Interviews Brian Eno Riverside 1983
Delia Derbyshire
Delia Derbyshire Interview for BBC Radio Scotland
Delia Derbyshire, The Myths and Legendary Tapes
Sculptress of Sound Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire
The Delian Mode - A Delia Derbyshire Documentary
Halim El-Dabh
My Life is Vibration Interview with Blake Tyson 2009
Julius Eastman
Open Ears Julius Eastman Classical California Video
Pauline Oliveros
Difference Between Hearing and Listening TEDx Talk
Peter Zinovieff
Peter Zinovieff and the EMS Electronic Music Studios
Peter Zinovieff: Synth Pioneer Sound on Sound Video
Steve Reich
Steve Reich Reflects on his Most Significant Works
Steve Reich Special Presentation for Pitchfork TV
Audio
Musique Concrète
Crossing into the Electricmagnetic Halim El-Dabh
Experimental Minimalism
It's Gonna Rain Pt 1 & Pt 2 by Steve Reich Audio
Octet Music for a Large Ensemble by Steve Reich
Ambient
Ambient 1: - Music for Airports by Brian Eno 1978
African Electronic Music
Electronic Music.Psychedelic Sanza Francis Bebey
Contemporary Experimental and Noise Music
Afro Noise I by DJ Cut Hands AKA William Bennett
Jean Michel-Basquiat and Gray (Band) Recordings
Photo : Francis Bebey in the Studio by Pierre Rene-Worms 1985
