Winfried Ritsch: ex machina dei - machine music as ambient in large spaces

Winfried Ritsch discusses Ex Machina Dei, a work that utilises electro-mechanical instruments and sinus tones, appending the echo of the grand piano and the sustaining tones of organ clusters at Ambient@40, a two-day conference to appraise ambient music in relation to Eno’s milestone release “Music Beyond Airports“, edited by Monty Adkins and Simon Cummings, available now in hardcopy and free PDF download via Huddersfield University Press: This presentation took place as part of the Ambient@40 conference, conveyed by Monty Adkins, Simon Cummings, Rupert Till, and Kristina Wolfe. In the forty years since the release of Brian Eno’s Music for Airports the concept and aesthetics of ambient music have proliferated, influencing artists as diverse as Taylor Deupree, Steven Wilson, David Ly