Music For Airports In The Age Of Climate Change

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William Denton Field recordings and ambient sounds combining into something very spatial, and it all holds together wonderfully as a complete work. Beautiful album.

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	1.	Music For Airports In The Age Of Climate Change 09:40 video
	2.	Transit 04:52
	3.	Departures 06:41
	4.	Security / International Airside 06:52
	5.	Departure Gate 10:15
	6.	Runway 07:39
	7.	Cabin Tone / Above The Clouds 04:22
	8.	(Airtraffic Control Supplementry Protocol Training) 06:52

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BOTH DIGITAL AND TAPE VERSIONS COME WITH A DOWNLOADABLE 21 PAGE PDF 'IN FLIGHT MAGAZINE'

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Music for Airports In The Age Of Climate Change

The world has changed a lot since Brian Eno's 1978 album 'Music For Airports', not least the spectre of climate change but also, as composer Ambrose Field observes, “notions of what constitutes the ambient environment in our information saturated, everyday existence, is considerably different than that of the 1970s”.

Part of Eno's original conception for Music For Airports was that it could be played over speakers within airports in part to aid anxious flyers. Released just a year before the launch of the Walkman, music has now become personalised and 'consumed' in our headphones, cancelling out the aural space. The anxieties of flying have become extrapolated to global anxiety about the environmental damage of flying itself and the wider danger of Co2 emissions in the age of climate change.

Music For Airports In The Age Of Climate Change is therefore created with two aims, first as a piece of art music within the continuum in which Eno created the original; as an ambient soundscape, to be listened to in your own time at leisure. Secondly it is also conceived to be used as a soundwalk, to be listened on headphones whilst navigating the modern airport and to contemplate the act of flying in the age of climate breakdown. Thus the next time you're transiting through an airport and onto a plane, you're encouraged to download the files and use the soundscapes as a guide when you're manoeuvring through an airport to catch a flight.

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released February 2, 2024

All Sounds By Audio Obscura (Neil Stringfellow) 2023.
With the following additional field recordings from Freesound.org under creative commons license

A1: Airport Ambience by Bruno Auzet
Air Traffic Control by FreesoundUser_2906614
Air Traffic Control by Klankbeeld
Air Plane Take Offs by Keng Wai Chane Chick Te

A2: Moving Walkway Recording by Filmscore

A3: Airprt Elevator by UltraDust
Gatwick Ambience by Andri Perevodchyk
Frankfurt Ambience by PiR2

A4: Security Loop by Sound Mary

B1: Baggage Announcement by dudamix'98
Brussels Ambience by Timmy Des

B2: Waiting / Boarding from Runway by Iain McCurdy
In flight Safety Demo by IAOT

B3: Cabin Tone by Rich Wise
Plane Flight by Bonny Orbit
Landing by Ian Oholic

B4: ATC Clears LP by Public Domain

All tracks Mastered by James Edward Armstrong

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-- melting the wide spectrums of electro-acoustic music, musique concrète, idm with occasional field recordings & post-classical ambient minimal leanings.

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