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	Podcast:		Weird Studies
	Episode:		Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports'
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		01:15:08
	Publish Date:		2022-02-02 14:00:00
	Description:		Soft, soothing, and understated as a rule, ambient music may seem the least weird of all musical genres. Not so, say JF and Phil, who devote this episode to Brian Eno's Music for Airports, the 1978 album in whose liner notes the term "ambient music" first appeared. In this conversation, your hosts explore the aesthetic, metaphysical, and political implications of a kind of music designed to interact with the listener -- and the listener's environment -- below the threshold of ordinary, directed awareness. Eno and Peter Schmidt's famous Oblique Strategies, a deck of cards designed to heighten and deepen creativity, lends divinatory support to the endeavor. Support us on Patreon Find us on Discord Get the new T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack REFERENCES Brian Eno, Ambient 1: Music for Airports Gabriella Cardazzo, Duncan Ward, and Brian Eno, Imaginary Landscapes Oblique Strategies Deck Theodore Adorno, Introduction to the Sociology of Music Marc Auge, Non-Places Anahid Kassabian, “Ubiquitous Music” Sigmund Freud, “On Transience” Weird Studies, Episode 104 on Sgt. Pepper Joris Karl Huysmans, A Rebours Roger Moseley, Keys to Play
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