Editing Ambient music (section)

==== Brian Eno ====
[[File:Brian_Eno_-_TopPop_1974_11.png|thumb|Brian Eno (pictured in 1974) is credited with coining the term "ambient music".]]
[[File:Minimoog Voyager XL, owned by Brian Eno.jpg|thumb|Minimoog Voyager XL, owned by Brian Eno]]
The English producer [[Brian Eno]] is credited with coining the term "ambient music" in the mid-1970s. He said other artists had been creating similar music, but that "I just gave it a name. Which is exactly what it needed ... By naming something you create a difference. You say that this is now real. Names are very important."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jan/17/brian-eno-interview-paul-morley|title=On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno {{!}} Interview|last=Morley|first=Paul|date=2010-01-17|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-10-21}}</ref> He used the term to describe music that is different from forms of canned music like [[Muzak]].<ref name=enotvf>{{Cite web|url=https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-essential-guide-to-brian-eno-in-10-records/|title=The essential guide to Brian Eno in 10 records|first=Chris|last=May|website=Thevinylfactory.com|date=12 April 2016|access-date=5 September 2020}}</ref>

In the liner notes for his 1978 album [[Ambient 1: Music for Airports|''Ambient 1:'' ''Music for Airports'']], Eno wrote:<ref name=":2" />
 
{{Blockquote|text=Whereas the extant canned music companies proceed from the basis of regularizing environments by blanketing their acoustic and atmospheric idiosyncrasies, Ambient Music is intended to enhance these. Whereas conventional background music is produced by stripping away all sense of doubt and uncertainty (and thus all genuine interest) from the music, Ambient Music retains these qualities. And whereas their intention is to "brighten" the environment by adding stimulus to it (thus supposedly alleviating the tedium of routine tasks and leveling out the natural ups and downs of the body rhythms) Ambient Music is intended to induce calm and a space to think. Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.|sign=|source=}}

Eno, who describes himself as a "non-musician", termed his experiments "treatments" rather than traditional performances.<ref name=":2">Brian Eno, [ ''Music for Airports'' liner notes], September 1978</ref><ref name="potter2002">{{cite book |title=Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass |last=Potter |first=Keith |year=2002 |edition= rev. pbk from 2000 hbk |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-01501-1 |pages=[ 91] }} (Quoting Brian Eno saying "La Monte Young is the daddy of us all" with endnote 113 p. [ 349] referencing it as "Quoted in Palmer, ''A Father Figure for the Avant-Garde'', p. 49".)</ref>