In 1975, while Brain Eno was convalescing after a car accident, he asked a woman who had come to visit him to put a record on his stereo (a 17th century harp record) before leaving, something she did. no problem ... but he forgot to turn up the volume, so that Eno found himself trying to capture the notes of the harp over the ambient noise, among many others, it was coincidentally a rainy day.
Far from being frustrated by the unfortunate moment, the musician was captivated by the sound and from this bitter experience his concept of "ambient music" emerged.
"Music for Airports" was the first example of this concept, and it is reconfigured in unexpected ways from deliberate impulse.
With a very simple structure, with a series of notes arranged in cycles, one note is repeated every 23 1/2 seconds, the other every 24 7/8 seconds, another every 29 15/16 seconds and so on, on a background that repeats constantly.
As the times are totally irregular, it is impossible for the cycles to synchronize at any given moment.
The result is a work of infinite duration that will simply never sound the same at any time.
Consequently the work itself becomes less important than the rules that determine its evolution, and the notes and the duration of the cycles.
As the work develops, one listens to different arrangements and configurations of the irregular elements, contrasting on the repetitive basic elements, achieving a fascinating result.
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