A música eletrónica ambiental: das primeiras composições musicais e experimentações sonoras às dinâmicas experimentais

Abstract

Taking Brian Eno's definition of electronic ambient music as a starting point, this first article seeks to build possible archaeology of this genre by presenting and analyzing a group of authors and works. These aresituated from the first musical compositions and sound experiments at the end of century 19th and early 20th century, until the experimental dynamics which challenged the concept of music and opened newpaths to sound experimentalism of the mid-20th century.The transversal idea to the development of this genre is that electronic ambient music starts from an attempt to use the form of sound as the foreground instead of resorting to melody voices or any other classical orpop music structure. But despite the existence of several anthologies and various academic articles and manifestos on ambient electronic music, this subgenre of electronic music remains as elusive andindeterminate as its origins.Electronic ambient music is also examined as one vision among many, as a genre and a musical style. It likewise discussed its emergence as a term (ambient) and a genre that seeks to induce calm and a space forthinking