Thank you, I think i'll start with those of Eno as I like some of his albums, and then Boards of Canada, maybe, as I see them very often... Well I like minimalism, so I would probably like ambient, too, if I take it well. 😄
I don't really agree with you on that. What Debussy did for the first time in music history with La Mer was this:
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focus almost exclusively on timbre
As for the Gymnopédies, I think the'yre extremely melodic (and harmony plays a vital role too of course). It's just their slow, repetitive nature that make them sound a little "background-music-y" (plus the fact that the first one is very often used as background music for whatever).
But there's another piece by Satie that's practically impossible to listen to actively in it's enterity: The Vexations. One page. Repeated 840 times.
As for the Gymnopédies, I think the'yre extremely melodic (and harmony plays a vital role too of course). It's just their slow, repetitive nature that make them sound a little "background-music-y" (plus the fact that the first one is very often used as background music for whatever).
Fair enough, I was thinking just in terms that I've hear his name thrown around as anticipating ambient and minimalism quite a few times (I think brian eno called him an influence?). Maybe more to do with his "furniture music" theory of whatever though. I think there is a certain meditative "ambience" to the gymnopedies and some other piano stuff, maybe its because how slow reinbert de leeuw plays them sticks out, but its still there in other versions I've heard....damn so basically what you said 🤣
And there are still little pretty fragments of melodies floating about and stuff about in la mer. I suppose Satie can remind of a certain static "trapped in a single moment of time" feel some ambient has, Debussy sounds really thick and misty to me in way thats certainly soundscape-y, but not in say the Eno or stars of the lid or loscil way (to throw out random names). Debussy's the best though.
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But there's another piece by Satie that's practically impossible to listen to actively in it's enterity: The Vexations. One page. Repeated 840 times.
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