Граници в безкрайност – опит за теоретично изследване на ембиънт музиката
Boundaries of Infinity – an Attempt for a Theoretical Study of Ambient Music

Summary/Abstract: Ambient is usually perceived as a type of atmospheric music, suitable for relaxation, meditation, work or sleep. While its presence can remain almost unnoticed by the listeners, it’s precisely composed to be sufficiently interesting and challenging during focused listening. Its creator and first ideologist, Brian Eno has managed to fit in this music philosophy, musical and technological approaches, which are initially found in ritual, religious music, minimalism and electro-acoustic experiments. Ambient has been formulated during the 1970s and four decades later it remains equally hard to study, insufficiently theoreticized but an exquisitely flexible and ‘mulitifunctional’ type of music. The genre has long overgrown its existence only within the context of electronic music. In a constant dialog not only with the environment of the physical spaces it inhabits, ambient has ‘infiltrated’ a number of other contemporary art forms and musical genres. Traces of ambient are to be found in contemporary minimalism, neoclassic and instrumental music or jazz. This text serves as a guide within the fragile boundaries of the genre. It studies its past and present and contemplates over the future potential for development of ambient music.

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