Style of musical accompaniment chosen!

I have chosen Ambient music to accompany the main narration; this allows for the music to be an interesting part of the project without ever distracting from the main body of the narrative.

Brian Eno, composer and originator of the term 'Ambient Music', describes the style thus:

"An ambience is defined as an atmosphere, or a surrounding influence: a tint. My intention is to produce original pieces ostensibly (but not exclusively) for particular times and situations with a view to building up a small but versatile catalogue of environmental music suited to a wide variety of moods and atmospheres.

Whereas the extant canned music companies proceed from the basis of regularising 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 levelling 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." (Eno, B., 1978)

From the above quote, it is clear to see how Ambient music may be used effectively within a Locative Media project such as mine. The use of music to further the ambience of the chosen locations as opposed to dominating the scene will be a key aspect within the tour's musical framework. Eno's first Ambient album, from which the above quote is cited was composed with a similar usage in mind: to calm passengers waiting to board aeroplanes; to compliment the surrounding spaces without ever dominating the foreground.