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This is the Arena arts interview with Brian Eno – a great new documentary that takes you into Eno’s studio and offers’ Eno’s own perspective on his work and his life.

Visit: Alessandro Cortini

The Multiple Artist Ambient Project – a collective ambient music project spearheaded by Daniel Davis – has gone live with their first project, Excursion One.

The idea of the Multiple Artist Ambient Project is to collectively create a set of ambient music “legos” that can be mixed and matched to create ambient music.

Excursion One is a collection of these compatible ambient audio files, presented in a Web page, that you can mix to create your own version of the ambient track.

Check it at at the MAAPMusic site.

Davis has also created a mix of Excursion One, MAAP:E1 that’s available as a free download.

And if you want to make your own mix, you can download the individual elements, too – they’re licensed with a Creative Commons license.

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Polyfuse’s One Quiet Moment is an extended dark ambient track, available for free download as an MP3 or in Apple lossless format. It’s free to use for non-commercial purposes, via a Creative Commons license.

Visit: One Quiet Moment

Hidden Place Music has put up a nice free ambient music mix: 

“mix of a few of my favorite deep, spacious ambient tracks from 2008. warm synth waves by Altus, icy winter environments from Shiftless, spaced-out piano by Ben Woods, stunning vocal-based headphone candy by Tertium Auris, spectral desert ambience by Rudy Adrian…”

Visit: Hidden Place Music

AmbiSounds+ (App Store link) is a free iPhone app that features binaural sound-enhanced nature sounds.

If you’re skeptical about the effects of binaural beats, aka “digital drungs”, which some believe can be used to entrain your mind into specific states, this is a free way to try it out for yourself.

If you try out AmbieSounds+, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Description:

AmbiSounds+ will help you fall asleep faster, help you relax and even help you get your work done by eliminating noise/annoyance in the environment. The application is an atmosphere enhancer that will help you create an ambient environment of your liking. With abilities to layer multiple tracks, your environment possibilities are virtually endless.

FEATURES – HIGH QUALITY BINAURAL sound tracks – Combine as many tracks as you like to create your custom layered track – Find yourself listening to your favorite tracks over and over? No problem. To make it easier, AmbiSounds is the only application of its kind to feature track ‘FAVORITES’ to make it faster for you to listen to your track – CONVENIENT options to configure your track playback on the front playback screen – Settable TIMER with playback stop or playback fade out – Option to automatically EXIT the application when timer expires – Auto saving settings – More than 20 tracks – Ability to select tracks from multiple categories for simultaneous playback – Configurable ‘Favorites’ track listing *** SAMPLE TRACKS(These are only a subset of the 80+ tracks in the application) *** – Bird Song – Church Bells – Frogs – Light Rain – Thunderstorm – Spanish Banks – Mountain Stream – Pendulum – Ocean Waves – Waterfall + many more! **

RECOMMENDATIONS OF USE** It is recommended that the tracks should be listened to using a headphone in order to maximize the binaural sound effects. However, headphones are not mandatory to listen to the high quality tracks that are part of this application. ** Requirement ** iPhone OS 2.2 *** Bugs/Improvements/Feedback *** Please feel free to provide feedback or suggest improvements and bugs that you may encounter. Simply contact me via email at vikas.singla.7@gmail.com.

Visit: AmbiSounds+

InFrequency has released a free ambient music album, Au Clair De La Lune, that brings together tracks from nine electronic music artists.

Musicians featured:

• PHILIPPE JELLI
• JIMMY BEHAN
• VENUS VULTURE
• THOMAS ANFIELD & DAVID BIRCHAM
• RICHARD LAINHART
• CIMARRON CORPÉ
• SHIN ICHIRO A
• ROB THEAKSTON
• SIGHUP

InFrequency asked the musicians to submit their own interpretations of an 1860 recording by Édouard-Léon Scott that’s thought to be the first recording of the human voice.

The free release goes along with a limited-edition two CD release of the same name. Details at the Infrequency site.

This project is a conceptual extension of breathing life back into this document through modern technology; deciphering a voice that was etched into a thin layer of oil lamp smoke, and featuring a diverse group of international contemporary composers, creating new works from this ten second piece of history.

The original recording was made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on April 9, 1860 using his own invention, the phonautograph, and consists of a series of scratches on a roll of blackened paper. Scott had never developed a way to play back his recordings and they went unheard for 148 years. In 2008, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory converted the thin lines back into audio, allowing us to hear a woman singing a segment of the folk song Au Clair de la Lune.

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