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Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It is often "peaceful" sounding and lacks composition, beat, and/or structured melody. [5] It uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening [6] and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation.
The music combines ambient sounds, voices (including that of John Cage), and poetry readings from the work of Marina Tsvetaeva. BBC Music called the album "a masterpiece in neoclassical composition." [ 19 ] Memoryhouse was first played live by Richter at the Barbican Centre on 24 January 2014 to coincide with a vinyl re-release of the album.
The music was reactive; it would become louder as the player character approached a threat. [45] While composing for the game, he mixed both melodic and atonal sounds together. [47] The music was influenced by the work of Krzysztof Penderecki and Jerry Goldsmith. [46] There were tonally vague themes to mirror the game's mysterious storyline. [47]
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Ostensibly, the primary reason for the song selection from decades ago is "reduced licensing costs" though using songs by "more recent artists (say, Golijov or Gaga) [a modern classical music composer and a modern pop singer] would have had greater difficulty establishing the vague sense of pastness" while this "hodgepodge of pre-1950s tunes ...