[Ads-l] "ambient music"

[Stephen Goranson]

The Wall Street Journal, "What Art Does..." May 22, and linked at aldailycom [Arts & LettersDaily]

"With 1978’s “Ambient 1: Music for Airports,” he [Brian Eno] invented ambient music—or at least coined the name."

Though it may be that Eno early on self-identified as intentionally producing such music, I suppose the collocation, like "ambient sound" and "ambient noise" may be earlier.

A brief search turned up a possible precursor in a July 19.1967 patent application, page 1598, right column, GB, here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=6cMziOVJIaoC&pg=PA1598&dq=%22ambient+music%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjwsMbkk8GNAxWiMdAFHfCxC7oQuwV6BAgLEAg#v=onepage&q=%22ambient%20music%22&f=false

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