Ambient vs. Traditional Composition

 

Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat…I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house, and the boat are to be found, the beauty of the air around them. To me the motif itself is an insignificant factor, what I want to reproduce is what lies between the motif in me.--Claude Monet

 While a song can have atmosphere, atmosphere can't have too much "song" in it. Classical music is "atmospheric" in some sense, but has a through-composed structure. Even though ambient music doesn't have structure, spatiotemporality creates form over time in context of all the songs on an ambient album, or in an ambient playlist.

11/2021