Art Collage JANG: 77. New Age Music: 4. Atmospheric, ACJ Music Academy

Friday, December 4, 2020

77. New Age Music: 4. Atmospheric, ACJ Music Academy

How are you?

Following the last week, I am going to start my 77th lecture.

Today's lecture is “Atmospheric”, the fourth topic of “New Age Music”, which is a summary of the contents of “77. New Age Music: 4. Atmospheric” introduced on February 25th, 2017.

“Atmospheric” is composed of individual's voluntary will to appreciate music, and refers to the form of listening to individual music and the target music to obtain emotional stability by making the acoustic environment beautiful. In the creation of such an environment, acoustic elements that can feel the natural environment of the sounds of nature such as the sounds of birds and wind are also included.

It is different from the “Ambient”, targeting a large number of unspecified listeners in any given spaces, in that the “Atmospheric” composes the listening environments and acoustic elements by individual's voluntary will.

This genre can be viewed as connecting the flow of “Easy Listening” genre, which gained great popularity from the 1950s to the 1960s. Some also refer to the music genre as Progressive Music and the music genre is dominated by keyboardist musicians. The musicians in Atmospheric genre have nothing to do with avant-garde, and can be seen as a connection of the trend of pop, rock, world music, jazz or classical music.

Unlike the other genres of New Age music, it is the music that generally creates a soft and pleasant atmosphere, and also referred to as “Contemporary Instrumental.” It pursues a sound allowing listeners to feel nature like the sounds of birds or waves along with the splendid tones of advanced electronic instruments.

Representative artists in this genre include Davol, Chris Spheeris, G.E.N.E, 2002, Mike Oldfield, Suzanne Ciani and Yanni.