A style of gentle, largely electronic instrumental music with no persistent beat, used to create or enhance a mood or atmosphere.
Example sentencesExamples
Following Eno's dictum that ambient music must be as ‘ignorable as it is interesting’, this music repays pretty much any level of attention you're prepared to give it.
You may not get to sing along, but this is not ambient music; it is immersive and involving.
This is a wonderfully rich, rewarding, deep, chaotic composition that should be the standard for all ambient music for the next 20 years.
Needless to say, Luke leapt at the opportunity, even though he wasn't making ambient music.
Maybe this is the modern equivalent to ambient music.
Definition of ambient music in US English:
ambient music
noun
A style of gentle, largely electronic instrumental music with no persistent beat, used to create or enhance a mood or atmosphere.
Example sentencesExamples
Maybe this is the modern equivalent to ambient music.
Following Eno's dictum that ambient music must be as ‘ignorable as it is interesting’, this music repays pretty much any level of attention you're prepared to give it.
Needless to say, Luke leapt at the opportunity, even though he wasn't making ambient music.
This is a wonderfully rich, rewarding, deep, chaotic composition that should be the standard for all ambient music for the next 20 years.
You may not get to sing along, but this is not ambient music; it is immersive and involving.