Music for Airports

Ambient 1/Music for Airports (1978) is one of Brian Eno's first ambient albums. Music for Airports employs phasing tape loops of different length in some tracks, where, for example, in "1/1", a single piano melody is repeated and at different times other instruments will segue in and out, and this happens pseudorandomly due to the phenomenon of phasing: at some point these instrumental sounds will clump together, at some points, be spread apart.

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1978 - Brian Eno's - Ambient

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The music on this album was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent to defuse the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal. It was installed at the Marine Air Terminal of New York?s LaGuardia Airport.

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Marine Air Terminal - New York?s - LaGuardia Airport

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The first three tracks on the album are sparse compositions with moments of silence between notes. The last track (?2/2?) is a smooth, billowy, electronic texture.

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