Pd for Airports (Creating Ambient Music in Pure Data) | Simon Hutchinson

Create a patch for generative ambient music in Pure Data (Pd) in the style of Track 2 from Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports.“ Brian Eno coined the term “ambient music“ to describe music that is “intended to induce calm and a space to think,“ and “as ignorable as it is interesting.“ We can make a simple patch in Pd that recreates one of Eno’s techniques, creating a system that endlessly generates ambient music for us with the notes that we choose. Give it a try and make your own interesting and ignorable music. #puredata #ambient #generativemusic 0:00 Opening demo 1:13 Introduction, What is “Ambient Music?“ 3:14 Making one synth tape loop 8:46 Prepping for duplication 10:35 Making multiple loops 14:47 Revisiting the demo patch, Ideas for expansion Tero Parviainen’s introduction on “How Generative Music Works“: #/title More Pure Data Tutorials : More ambient music production: Subscribe for new videos every week: All my videos are fueled by coffee. You can buy me one here: Follow me: Official Website - Twitter - facebook - - Soundcloud - I’m a composer, sound-designer, and new media artist trying to bring a global perspective to music technology. This channel contains performances, experiments, and instructional videos for artists and audiences searching for new ideas and avenues of musical expression.