How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
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HN comment orderThis is a really well-written article and the experience on the website is great. It looks that the audio files are downloadable from the source file. So I downloaded 3 mp3 files from the website, drag-drop them into the glicol web ide (https://glicol.org/tour#samples), and write the following music code: // you need to drag eno_mfa_choir_01.mp3 here \/ and the same for the rest ~t1: speed 0.3 >> seq 60 >> sp \eno_mfa_choir_01 >> lpf 500 1.0 >> mul ~mod1 ~mod1…
Also a huge Eno fan here. Put together, I probably have listened to Music for Airports, Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain and Discreet Music more than any other artist. Maybe Philip Glass comes in at a close second. Anyways, in 2016, Tero Parviainen (@teropa) shared this really cool long-form exploration called "JavaScript Systems Music – Learning Web Audio by Recreating The Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno" that I enjoyed tremendously (and I don't even like Javascript!) Check…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-21 | How Brian Eno Created "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" | yannchx | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-10-12 | How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for AirportsFirst breakout · Best thread | jim-jim-jim | 523 | 127 |
| 2025-12-02 | How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)Latest 20+ point return | dijksterhuis | 223 | 106 |