앰비언트 음악(Ambient Music) 형식 분석 - 에이펙스 트윈(Aphex Twind)의 ‘루바브(Rhubarb)’를 중심으로

Abstract

Ambient music does not have a traditional music forms but emphasizes a sense of space through continuous repetition of pad and drone sounds. This study sought to reveal the characteristics of ambient music format. By analyzing Aphex Twin’s song “Rhubarb,” this study investigated the dynamic changes in ambient music that occur through repetition and transformation. The analysis confirmed that the dynamic change achieved through the overlapping of textures on repeated musical phrases forms the form of the song, thereby expanding and contracting the sense of space. The characteristics of the ambient music format were summarized as repetitive forms, dynamic changes through texture overlap, and creation of a sense of space through dynamic changes. This analysis of formal characteristics can be applied not only to the early ambient music created by Brian Eno, but also to the electronic music genre that later combined ambient music and ambient sound through combination with other genres. Analysis of ambient music as a branch of electronic music as well as research on ambient sound will provide a new direction to the possibilities of such music.