https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/genres/ambient/Latest entries for the tag AmbientenWed, 15 Nov 2023 15:12:03 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/hinako-omori-finding-stillness/Amidst the chaos of a world marked by seemingly permanent crisis, producer and composer Hinako Omori encourages us to tune back into the stillness of our natural surroundings. Although she was raised in London, Omori’s work is rooted in a respect for nature and tranquility that she ascribes more to…Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:12:03 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/hinako-omori-finding-stillness/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/processed-realities-exploring-the-psychedelic-future-music-of-special-guest-dj-perila-and-ben-bondy/Looking back through the history of music, it’s often communities that incubate the most exciting developments in sound. Individual pioneers do exist and should not be disregarded, but most tangible musical movements are formed by people exchanging ideas and creatively spurring each other on. In the online era, these movements…Wed, 09 Aug 2023 12:57:21 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/processed-realities-exploring-the-psychedelic-future-music-of-special-guest-dj-perila-and-ben-bondy/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ropes-fields-and-waves-celia-hollander-sculpts-time-with-sound/Ascending the tall, narrow stairs of Celia Hollander’s apartment in Los Angeles’ Highland Park neighborhood feels like entering a cloud where the fragrance of citrus blossoms mingle with the morning’s coffee brew. Her compact, modular studio accentuates a desire for functional flexibility, a setting that bends to sound’s calling. Scattered…Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:38:23 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ropes-fields-and-waves-celia-hollander-sculpts-time-with-sound/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/drone-lab-creating-sustained-sounds-in-live-11/Drones have existed in sound-making for centuries. On a basic level, they’re just long-held or continuous notes and tone clusters, but the belief that these sounds hold some transformative power spans communities, continents and generations. Today, drone-based ASMR video playlists are advertised as productivity hacks, while traditional sound meditation practices…Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:56:58 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/drone-lab-creating-sustained-sounds-in-live-11/ArtistsNewsTutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kmru-spaces/Is the music we make necessarily informed by where we’re born and raised? Or is it largely determined by where we go from there? Or maybe where we are right now is the only place that matters? These and related questions are at the heart of our new artist documentary…Thu, 04 Nov 2021 13:37:48 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kmru-spaces/ArtistsDownloadsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/luke-sanger-a-workmans-tools/There’s no fixed rule for how an artist relates to their tools. For some, one or two critical instruments may define their entire creative identity. For others, like Luke Sanger, the medium is secondary to the end result, and often in electronic music there are many different ways to achieve…Fri, 12 Nov 2021 15:48:23 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/luke-sanger-a-workmans-tools/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/download-the-live-set-of-merrin-karras-new-track-still-life/Ireland-born musician and producer Brendan Gregoriy is known for his distinctive style of melodic house and techno under the alias of Chymera, with releases on influential labels such as Cocoon, Ovum and Delsin. Gregoriy’s more recent, ambient productions under the pseudonym Merrin Karras reflect an evolution of his musical interests…Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:24:16 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/download-the-live-set-of-merrin-karras-new-track-still-life/ArtistsDownloadsTutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/jon-hassell-possible-musics/“Like the video technique of ‘keying in’ where any background may be electronically inserted or deleted independently of foreground, the ability to bring the actual sound of musics of various epochs and geographical origins all together in the same compositional frame marks a unique point in history”, so wrote the...Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:17:37 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/jon-hassell-possible-musics/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/caterina-barbieri-minimalism-modular-and-live/Caterina Barbieri was one of the participants we were most excited about at Loop 2017. Her album Patterns of Consciousness had received much critical acclaim and is a favorite around the office. And so we jumped at the chance talk to her and have her perform live at the event....Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:42:25 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/caterina-barbieri-minimalism-modular-and-live/ArtistsLoopVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ramzi-in-a-world-of-her-own-design/Like the best electronic music, Phoebé Guillemot’s creations take you very far away indeed. While there may be plenty of genres stuffed full of soundalike producers working to a formula, Guillemot’s work as RAMZi is truly has few counterparts. On paper the description of tropical forest sounds, lopsided percussion, delirious synths and autotuned vocals may sound unfamiliar, or perhaps even unappealing, but such is the unique nature of RAMZi it’s hard to put across just how exotic sounding this music is. While some artists vaguely allude to music from distant lands or even thoughtlessly appropriate sounds from other cultures, Guillemot is busy creating entire worlds of her own design.Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:43:20 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ramzi-in-a-world-of-her-own-design/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/visible-cloaks-synthesis-and-systems/According to the dictionary, synthesis is the combining of constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity. Apart from the familiar technical sense of creating complex sounds from simple waveforms, synthesis also describes what we do when we take our influences and inspirations and...Tue, 09 May 2017 09:58:08 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/visible-cloaks-synthesis-and-systems/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/art-of-field-recording/One of the underlying themes of the Loop event in Berlin last November was to examine some of the many ways producers relate to sound in their environment - whether it was Holly Herndon’s internet-inspired digital utopia, Matthew Herbert’s discussion around his musical manifesto or AGF’s workshop on field recording....Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:42:21 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/art-of-field-recording/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith/Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith creates collages of sound that burst like colors from a canvas. Her cinematic music is in inspired by minimalist composers like Terry Riley and from visual artists such as Moebius and Hayao Miyazaki. While the sound could be classified as neo-classical or ambient, there is a definitive...Fri, 06 May 2016 12:49:04 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/matthewdavid-new-new-age/Los Angeles, it has been said, is a city that’s impossible to define. Its enduring presence in our collective imaginations, the diversity of its residents and neighborhoods, plus its sheer size and sprawl; all add up to a picture of parallel worlds loosely connected to one another by activist individuals...Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:24:53 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/matthewdavid-new-new-age/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/Spectral-Textures/As a musician, Uwe Zahn made quite a name for himself under the moniker Arovane – his Tides album from 2000 is considered something of an IDM classic. After a lengthy hiatus, Zahn resurfaced recently with the release of – rather intriguingly – a sound library. That his artistic sensibility...Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:44:47 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/Spectral-Textures/News