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  2. Ambient video - Wikipedia

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    Ambient video is a new art form made possible by the increasing availability of large-scale, high-definition video display units. [1] Introduced in the late 1990s, the first flat wide-screen televisions were expensive, costing as much as $15,000 in 1997. [2] As costs rapidly declined, by 2008 larger screens became affordable and available for ...

  3. Ambient music - Wikipedia

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    Ambient dub is a fusion of ambient music with dub. The term was first coined by Birmingham 's now defunct label "Beyond Records" in early 1990s. The label released series of albums Ambient Dub Volume 1 to 4 that inspired many artists, including Bill Laswell , who used the same phrase in his music project Divination, where he collaborated with ...

  4. Background music - Wikipedia

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    Background music is commonly played where there is no audience at all, such as empty hallways, restrooms and fitting rooms. It is also used in artificial space, such as music played while on hold during a telephone call, and virtual space, as in the ambient sounds or thematic music in video games. It is typically played at low volumes from ...

  5. Space music - Wikipedia

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    Space music typically evokes a sense of spatial imagery and emotion or sensations of floating, cruising, flying and other transportative sensations. Space music, also called spacemusic or space ambient, is a subgenre of ambient music and is described as "tranquil, hypnotic and moving". It is derived from new-age music and is associated with ...

  6. Ambient device - Wikipedia

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    Ambient device. Ambient devices are a type of consumer electronics, characterized by their ability to be perceived at-a-glance, also known as "glanceable". Ambient devices use pre-attentive processing to display information [1] and are aimed at minimizing mental effort. Associated fields include ubiquitous computing and calm technology.

  7. Drone music - Wikipedia

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    dark ambient. post-rock [ 1] Fusion genres. Drone metal. Drone music, [ 2][ 3] drone-based music, [ 4] or simply drone, is a minimalist [ 5] genre of music that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, [ 6] notes, or tone clusters called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy compositions featuring relatively slight harmonic variations.

  8. Dark ambient - Wikipedia

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    Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial music [ 1][ 3] that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones. It shows similarities with ambient music, a genre that has been cited as a main influence by many ...

  9. Walking in My Shoes - Wikipedia

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    Walking in My Shoes. " Walking in My Shoes " is a song by British electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was released on 26 April 1993 by Mute and Sire as the second single from their eighth studio album, Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993).