Description: Brian Eno's seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art. Author John T. Lysaker situates this album in the context of twentieth-century art music, where its ambitions and contributions to avant garde music practice become even more apparent.
Review Quotes: "an introductory reading for listeners of all kinds who want to understand its importance for music history and aesthetics." -- Marta García Quiñones, Transposition
"Lysaker empowers listeners and gives a deep lesson on the musical, cultural, and philosophical intersections they hear in Music For Airports. And beyond Eno, this book's ideas are valuable to the concerns and functions of ambient music at large. The focus here on coexisting levels of attentive depth is a welcome addition to our understanding of this, a music that proves itself more relevant every day." -- S. Alexander Reed, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Ithaca College and author of Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music"MFA quietly and resolutely challenges many received ideas about music; John Lysaker's new book provides a wonderfully wide-ranging, non-technical guide to the record in all its aspects, musical, social and philosophical. A mindful, multi-faceted examination of a mindful, multi-faceted masterpiece." -- Evan Ziporyn, Distinguished Professor and Director of Center for Art, Science & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Producer/Arranger, Bang on a Can Music for Airports