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"Ambient Music is intended to induce calm and a space to think", he [Brian Eno] concluded. "Ambient Music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular: it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."
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Ad Reinhardt, 1954-1958
Reinhardt's outline of the new aesthetic "... no texture, no drawing, no light, no space, no movement, no object, no subject, no symbol, no form... no pleasure, no pain"
[Ocean of Sound, David Toop, págs. 9 e 12]