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The term "ambient" music was first coined in the late '70s by influential British artist Brian Eno, who described it as music created to "induce calm and space to think." Since then, the genre has ...

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From melodic ambient music to experimental noise, more North Texas musicians are creating music that emphasizes mood and texture over musical structure. Many ambient and experimental musicians perform ...

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William Basinski’s “Melancholia II” sounds like what might happen if despair itself walked into a studio and someone pressed the record button. Little pops poke through its smeared dreariness, like a ...