Atmospheric sound art in its various forms has existed for more than a century.
Consider the "symphonic poems" or tone poems of Liszt and others, the furnishing music of Satie, the works of John Cage, and ambient music itself, as defined by Brian Eno.
What becomes apparent is the movement from a "fine" art form to a "popular" art form, and what will ultimately be an elimination of the distinction between the two-- if that has not, in fact, already taken place.
Consider the "symphonic poems" or tone poems of Liszt and others, the furnishing music of Satie, the works of John Cage, and ambient music itself, as defined by Brian Eno.
What becomes apparent is the movement from a "fine" art form to a "popular" art form, and what will ultimately be an elimination of the distinction between the two-- if that has not, in fact, already taken place.
