Takashi Kokubo didn’t know it back in 1985, but he was about to be at the forefront of one of Japan’s most coveted musical exports: kankyō ongaku (environmental music), an offshoot of ambient music ...
In À Rebours, the decadent 1884 novel by French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, protagonist-aesthete Jean Des Esseintes composed a ‘music of flavours’. In a closet in his dining room, Des Esseintes ...
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Apple released iOS 18.4 this week with some interesting and surprising new features. In addition to adding Priority Notifications and expanding Apple Intelligence to more languages and regions, there ...
One of the more interesting features to arrive on iPhone lately is the Ambient Music player, which, as the name implies, plays ambient music. This neat audio feature was introduced with iOS 18.4, and ...
Host Scott Detrow talks with Pitchfork editor Andy Cush about ambient music and the growth in popularity of marketing it as so-called mood music on streaming platforms. And finally today, to create a ...
An ambient music generating machine learning pipeline, using Pachyderm and the Magenta Project Music Transformer. Pachyderm makes it supremely simple to string together a bunch of loosely coupled ...