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music engineered to be ignored as brilliantly as it's heard.
means Existing or operating in the surrounding environment, especially as a constant background presence felt rather than focused on.
from From the Latin 'ambiens,' the present participle of 'ambire,' meaning 'to go around' — built from 'ambi-' (around, both sides) and 'ire' (to go). The same 'ambi-' that surrounds you in 'ambit' and 'ambition' (literally a 'going around' to canvass for votes). So the word is, at root, whatever goes round and round you — the air, the noise, the glow that's simply there. It entered English by the 16th century to describe the encompassing world, long before Brian Eno borrowed it for sound.
- brian eno
- Coined the term while bedridden, hearing rain over faint harp
- airport origins
- Eno's landmark album made for airport waiting areas
- computing too
- Ambient tech means devices sensing you without screens
- lighting trick
- Ambient light fills a room with no visible source
- temperature
- Ambient simply means whatever the surroundings already are