The Sound of Embodied Security
The Sound of Embodied Security
Imaginary Landscapes of Ambient Music
Chapter 2 presents an aesthetic history of how ambient music has sought to enable feelings of ontological security by indirectly situating the self against imaginary acoustic horizons. Roquet traces how the landscapes made sensible by ambient music became increasingly abstract and anonymous moving from the 1980s to the 1990s to the 2000s, in time with shifting social attitudes and new sound reproduction technologies. In the process, Roquet listens closely to key ambient tracks from Hosono Haruomi, Tetsu Inoue, and Hatakeyama Chihei.
Keywords: Aesthetics, Ambient music, Ontology, Acoustics, Abstraction, Sound technology, Hosono Haruomi, Tetsu Inoue, Hatakeyama Chihei
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