Really interesting video. Refreshing to see something about ambient music production that isn't essentially just an advert for a new piece of equipment.
Great Video Benji!! thank you so much! I´m a bass player, getting into ambient music... your videos are incredibly inspiring. This is my first solo project, and I´m facing a lot really nice "problems", like mentioned in the video: looking fot textures to reproduce, sounds. Experimenting with friend´s gear, or re-discovering new ways to use old stuff... It´s beeing an incredible journey.
Great video! In regards to buying gear: Beautiful people: looks aren‘t important. Rich people: money isn’t important People with a 10k rig: gear isn’t important 😅
I took an electronic music course at the University of Illinois with Dr. Sever Tipei. He was really big on visual scores. Rather than writing out notes or chord charts, he recommended sketching shapes and lines to represent sections of a piece.
I love that! One of my ambient friends, Caminauta, makes her own visual scores, and I love the idea. I generally look at my music as sound paintings, so to see someone translate music into visuals, and vice versa. I’m really interested in any graphic notation stuff, so I’ll have to look into Dr Tipei’s work. Thanks so much for the little anecdote!
Very helpful video, Ben. Thanks for putting this out there. I'm new to creating ambient/downtempo music that I started during the pandemic lockdowns. I feel like I'm just scratching the surface, but I'm happy with the results I've achieved so far and it's been a lot of fun learning and "meeting" new people.
Hello. When I describe my compositions I say that they are Electronic music, Experimental music, or Noise music. I searched for many ways to produce music before I began writing it. I learned a lot from other musicians, and ways they created sounds. Afterwards I used every type of sounds. It's a lot of fun. I like your video. Enjoy your weekend.
thanks for this. really interesting to hear the thoughtprocess and the ideas. also the low level ambience in the background makes it all super soothing
Wonderful and inspiring video. Love the call and response way it was edited. Very experimental workflow! Also love the ambient music in the background. Thank you
Very cool video! I've been so much into ambient and my own workflow, it's fun and refreshing to hear how it is approached by other musicians. Looking forward to part 2! I love the format of these :)
Such a great high quality video dude! Really worth the wait. Such a wealth of knowledge here, really interesting and inspiring to watch. Super enjoyable video form, keep doing what your doing mate and you'll be flying, take care out there 🙏
Thank you for the kind words! And yeah, there is going to be at least one more episode coming out. My computer is being funky in the edit right now, but since I’ve already done the interview, it should be coming out fairly soon! Glad you are excited for future stuff!
Hello! Well done video. I'm an old guy (64) learning ambient music. I enjoy your enthusiasm and down to earth attitude! If you haven't already, check out Hainbach here on TH-cam. He has some good ideas. Again thank you for the videos and keep up the Great work!
Thank you so much! Yes, I do really enjoy what Hainbach puts out. He has such an interesting approach to music creation, and his use of instruments is always inspired. I’m super glad you enjoy my content, and I hope you will continue to enjoy future content!
@@ambientbenji absolutely. Not sure if you can or will, but if possible can you DM I would like some help with some music I’m working on. Either way I appreciate your knowledge. Thanks.
As far as I’m aware, I can’t shoot you dms here, but you can find my Instagram in the bio, and that’s a great place for me to actually talk to people and answer questions!
you got the avengers out here to make this video
Perfect comment
Really interesting video. Refreshing to see something about ambient music production that isn't essentially just an advert for a new piece of equipment.
Thank you! I already got the gear advert out of my system with the last video, haha. Glad you found it interesting!
100%!
Great Video Benji!! thank you so much! I´m a bass player, getting into ambient music... your videos are incredibly inspiring. This is my first solo project, and I´m facing a lot really nice "problems", like mentioned in the video: looking fot textures to reproduce, sounds. Experimenting with friend´s gear, or re-discovering new ways to use old stuff... It´s beeing an incredible journey.
Great video!
In regards to buying gear:
Beautiful people: looks aren‘t important.
Rich people: money isn’t important
People with a 10k rig: gear isn’t important 😅
I love you you can gradually see the sun set over the course of the interview
I took an electronic music course at the University of Illinois with Dr. Sever Tipei. He was really big on visual scores. Rather than writing out notes or chord charts, he recommended sketching shapes and lines to represent sections of a piece.
I love that! One of my ambient friends, Caminauta, makes her own visual scores, and I love the idea. I generally look at my music as sound paintings, so to see someone translate music into visuals, and vice versa. I’m really interested in any graphic notation stuff, so I’ll have to look into Dr Tipei’s work. Thanks so much for the little anecdote!
wow wonderful! do you have, or recommend, some material to start with?
Very helpful video, Ben. Thanks for putting this out there. I'm new to creating ambient/downtempo music that I started during the pandemic lockdowns. I feel like I'm just scratching the surface, but I'm happy with the results I've achieved so far and it's been a lot of fun learning and "meeting" new people.
Hello. When I describe my compositions I say that they are Electronic music, Experimental music, or Noise music. I searched for many ways to produce music before I began writing it. I learned a lot from other musicians, and ways they created sounds. Afterwards I used every type of sounds. It's a lot of fun. I like your video. Enjoy your weekend.
thanks for this. really interesting to hear the thoughtprocess and the ideas. also the low level ambience in the background makes it all super soothing
Wonderful and inspiring video. Love the call and response way it was edited. Very experimental workflow! Also love the ambient music in the background. Thank you
Very cool video! I've been so much into ambient and my own workflow, it's fun and refreshing to hear how it is approached by other musicians. Looking forward to part 2! I love the format of these :)
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed, hope you dig part 2 when it comes out
Such a great high quality video dude! Really worth the wait. Such a wealth of knowledge here, really interesting and inspiring to watch. Super enjoyable video form, keep doing what your doing mate and you'll be flying, take care out there 🙏
Thank you so much!!! Glad it was worth the 3 months haha.
I am so into this look, my dude.
Thanks for this! What a great dive into the subject. Can't wait for more in the series if you do some.
Thank you for the kind words! And yeah, there is going to be at least one more episode coming out. My computer is being funky in the edit right now, but since I’ve already done the interview, it should be coming out fairly soon! Glad you are excited for future stuff!
Great video that is really well constructed with so many good contributions. Why you don't have more views totally baffles me. Love the channel!
Thank you!!! I’m glad you enjoyed what you saw, I hope I can keep the content up to that standard in the future!
Thank you so much for those videos !!
Thank you for the kind comment! Glad you enjoyed!
Hello! Well done video. I'm an old guy (64) learning ambient music. I enjoy your enthusiasm and down to earth attitude!
If you haven't already, check out Hainbach here on TH-cam. He has some good ideas. Again thank you for the videos and keep up the Great work!
Thank you so much! Yes, I do really enjoy what Hainbach puts out. He has such an interesting approach to music creation, and his use of instruments is always inspired. I’m super glad you enjoy my content, and I hope you will continue to enjoy future content!
thank you for the amazing content!
Once again awesome video. Just subscribed to Benjamin’s YT and Apple Music.
You are too kind!!! Glad you are enjoying my videos so much, I hope you continue to enjoy future stuff I put out!!! 😊
@@ambientbenji absolutely. Not sure if you can or will, but if possible can you DM I would like some help with some music I’m working on. Either way I appreciate your knowledge. Thanks.
As far as I’m aware, I can’t shoot you dms here, but you can find my Instagram in the bio, and that’s a great place for me to actually talk to people and answer questions!
I find the absolute most important thing when I'm making ambient music is that I'm sat in a hamock.
Tim Hecker used audio mulch for his first couple of albums at least
You can really hear the bubble blower in a bunch of those tracks!
(Source: i asked him at a show around 2003 or whatever)