A música eletrónica ambiental: da profundidade sonora aos imaginários da mente

Abstract

This article departs from the definition for ambient electronic music, as an inductive element for the creation of a space to think, and presents a set of authors and sound works orientated towards a concern with space. These authors are contextualised according to the foundations of contemporary electronic music, from the mid-20th century and which are based on works that revolutionised the way in which electronic music came to be seen, up to the new expansion of electronic ambient music, with the appearance of new sonorities and new paths for this musical genre as from the 2000s, consolidating and stabilising it as a musical genre. But electronic ambient music as a genre should be seen as an overlapping of information, and not only as an interaction with an environment. Thus, we argue that the social connection of electronic ambient music to its own environment and context has changed throughout its evolution as a genre, just as this context has changed, reinforcing that the place today is a personal space, just like the listening experience associated with electronic ambient music. The present-day experience of electronic ambient music in the conception, amplification or discontinuity of places, expresses in itself the desire to exercise an internal agency or a mediation with its own surroundings, operating as a reflection of the 'I', recurring to sonorities that move the mind. An 'I' that includes the social world in which one is immersed and a representation of figurative places.