Background music

Background music (including atmospheric music ) is unobtrusive music that usually remains for their listeners in the background of attention. The term is used in two senses:

Two meanings

For one, it may be music to stimulate in a particular performance context to the activities of their type and volume after that have not directly to do with this music. A traditional background music is the Tafelmusik, which facilitates a casual conversation while eating. In department stores to background music as Muzak also promote consumption. To work, reading or studying background music is used individually. Their effect is controversial in the psychology of music, since it can be difficult to objectify.

On the other hand, the expression is background music for acoustic components used in audiovisual and multimedia productions which are to remain over text, images and language in the background, for example in a film, playing a computer game, a presentation or a website. A music bed in a jingle about should not interfere, but support the linguistic information. Background music in the computer game recedes towards the sound effects that emphasize current events. Such music often serves to guide their listeners through a virtual scene and to create moods in the kind of movie musical Mood technique.

Variants

As background music can serve almost any music genre. However, there are genres such as Classical or Popular Smooth Jazz, which are tailored for use as background music. Often you are instrumental music preference, because it is assumed that human voices and sung texts would strongly draw attention to themselves. Even with the electronic ambient and lounge music vocal elements are missing or spoken texts. Such music helps in the design of spaces, similar to the interior design. At ambient architectural furniture and musical components are interconnected.

The decision about what should remain in the background of attention, always hits the listener. When Barpiano may change between the freely chosen non-compliance with the music and full attention, for example in a known melody that thrills for the audience. - Easy Listening is a term used for background music, especially in radio programs.

Aesthetics

An aesthetic debate ignited the background music in the 1920s, when some composers foil to the classical concert music studied, you should ask the bourgeois concept of art music in question. Erik Satie designed with his Musique d' ameublement a highly repetitive music that was based on wallpaper patterns. His suggestions have been included in more recent times by John Cage and the minimal music. However, obsessive-compulsive repetitions are often stressful and are not necessarily as background music.

The musique concrète since the 1940s, the already presupposed a developed sound recording technology, blurring the difference between atmospheric noise and music. The modern possibilities of sound synthesis with sampling since about 1990, also blur the line between natural and artificial sounds. These suggestions have led to new forms of art like the sound installation or soundscape.