How about Steve Reich's 'Music for 18 Musicians'? Depends on what you define as ambient. If we're talking spacey, arhythmic with little dynamic range, then Gustav Holst's 'Neptune: The Mystic'Would fit the bill. If we're talking Musique Concrete, Stockhausen's 'Gesang der Junglinge'.
― 3×5, Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
xpost I've always been under the impression that classical musicians and composers still largely pride themselves on instrumental performance and the ability to recreate a composition in a live setting. In general classical music has trended towards music getting more complex and harder to play; even the sparse stuff tends to be full of meticulous rhythms and to require familiarity with the full range of the instrument and extended techniques. Whereas the most stately/distant/highbrow electronic music nowadays is all laptop-based.
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
mahler malmsteen
― Mordy, Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
Definitely Erik Satie:
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:04 (11 months ago) Permalink
Johann johannsson
― windjammer voyage (blank), Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
John Luther Adams :
― oh god here come the cardiacs fans (Matt #2), Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
― MaresNest, Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
the Adagio from Mahler's 9th Symphonyfinal movement - Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus - from Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du tempsmost Ingram Marshall stuff that I've heard
― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
Big Feldman fan here already. And...
"In 2000, Eberhard Blum, Nils Vigeland, and Jan Williams came together once more as “The Feldman Soloists” to perform Crippled Symmetry, the trio Feldman composed for them, on the 25th anniversary celebration of the festival he founded. The recording of this concert is now finally available on CD, and is destined to become the reference release of this work."
http://frozenreeds.com/?p=21
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Friday, 13 July 2012 08:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
John Adams - Shaker Loops (Especially Lightning Over Water)Paul DresherTony Conrad and the microtonalists basically own this thread
― Oblique Strategies, Friday, 13 July 2012 08:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
What about Ingram Marshall? Anyone got any recommendations for a jumping-in point?
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Friday, 13 July 2012 12:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
album on New Albion with "Fog Tropes", "Gradual Requiem" and "Gambuh I" on it is great
― sorry i'm tumblr white (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 July 2012 12:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
Ta!
― Terabytes of FLACS of screaming (Call the Cops), Saturday, 14 July 2012 04:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
― clouds, Saturday, 14 July 2012 12:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
I don't really think of Tony Conrad as "classical" tbh
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:39 (10 months ago) Permalink