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.

Track listing

The track labelling is so because of the album's first release (1978) as an LP, and so the first track means "first track, first side", and so on.

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• "1/1" : Acoustic piano, electric piano and synthesizer - 16:39
• "2/1" : Vocals only. - 8:25
• "1/2" : Vocals and acoustic piano. - 11:36
• "2/2" : Synthesizer only. - 9:38

All tracks were composed by Eno except "1/1", which was composed by Eno, Robert Wyatt, and Rhett Davies.

Related Topics:
Robert Wyatt - Rhett Davies

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The back cover features four abstract graphic notation images, one for each track.

Related Topics:
Back cover - Graphic notation

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The Bang on a Can All-Stars, an offshoot of the Bang on a Can music festival, arranged Music for Airports for live musicians. They have played their arrangements on tour and for a CD released in 1997 by Point Music.

Related Topics:
Bang on a Can All-Stars - Bang on a Can - Point Music

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