Echo Starship is a musician who uses all manner of conventional to unearthly sources for his music and the result is an ambient creation that sustains and evolves through an entire hour at Cat's Art MusikCircus.
Yes, that is Echo Starship and he is a computer monitor that will be playing Pong forever. Be all you can be!
Ambient is not my first choice in music but I appreciate the prettiness of it. There are many beautiful, flowing sounds and the purpose is not to engage you in a melody or a riff as this is about what I have mentioned previously in connecting by disconnecting. You connect to the World of the Necromancer or get as close to it as you can but only by disconnecting from conscious thought. Effects can create causes and chickens only have to walk backwards to get across the road (that way no-one will question them).
Dismiss it as hippie shit if you like but you can see just about anywhere in music, particularly live, the thinking and feeling of disconnecting from the 'real' external world and connecting to the music, the love, the party, whatever aspect of it you like ... but the one thing common to all is that it is not the 'real' external world. That's a very broad cut on alternate realities but it's a cut practically everyone can easily see. On a different level, the same is even true for watching a movie but the degree of displacement between each reality will not be as extreme. Disengagement is a large and nontrivial part of this.
All musicians will differ on the best way to connect and the wonder of music is that all musicians can differ on it. Ambient is a beautiful way to do it and I was on the verge of calling it a pathway but it isn't. Maybe it's more accurate that an ambient musician tries to make the light such that you can find the pathway yourself.
Yes, that is Echo Starship and he is a computer monitor that will be playing Pong forever. Be all you can be!
Ambient is not my first choice in music but I appreciate the prettiness of it. There are many beautiful, flowing sounds and the purpose is not to engage you in a melody or a riff as this is about what I have mentioned previously in connecting by disconnecting. You connect to the World of the Necromancer or get as close to it as you can but only by disconnecting from conscious thought. Effects can create causes and chickens only have to walk backwards to get across the road (that way no-one will question them).
Dismiss it as hippie shit if you like but you can see just about anywhere in music, particularly live, the thinking and feeling of disconnecting from the 'real' external world and connecting to the music, the love, the party, whatever aspect of it you like ... but the one thing common to all is that it is not the 'real' external world. That's a very broad cut on alternate realities but it's a cut practically everyone can easily see. On a different level, the same is even true for watching a movie but the degree of displacement between each reality will not be as extreme. Disengagement is a large and nontrivial part of this.
All musicians will differ on the best way to connect and the wonder of music is that all musicians can differ on it. Ambient is a beautiful way to do it and I was on the verge of calling it a pathway but it isn't. Maybe it's more accurate that an ambient musician tries to make the light such that you can find the pathway yourself.
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