Ombient
Encyclopedia
Ombient is the moniker under which Mike Hunter performs his completely improvised ambient
/drone music
.
Ombient's ambient/drone music, being of a live and improvisational
nature, is representative of the feeling of the moment in which it is performed and of the subtle feedback between the audience and the performer. It features guitar which is processed and layered using digital looping equipment enabling a single guitar to produce symphonic levels of density.
Mike Hunter also plays in the Progressive
/World
/Ambient
/Space Rock
Band known as Brainstatik as well as the popular Irish Traditional/Celtic rock
band The Stone Soup Band.
Mike Hunter is also a Fractal art
ist.
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
/drone music
Drone music
Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics...
.
Ombient's ambient/drone music, being of a live and improvisational
Musical improvisation
Musical improvisation is the creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians...
nature, is representative of the feeling of the moment in which it is performed and of the subtle feedback between the audience and the performer. It features guitar which is processed and layered using digital looping equipment enabling a single guitar to produce symphonic levels of density.
Mike Hunter also plays in the Progressive
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
/World
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
/Ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
/Space Rock
Space rock
Space rock is a subgenre of rock music; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electric organs, synthesizers, experimental...
Band known as Brainstatik as well as the popular Irish Traditional/Celtic rock
Celtic rock
Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock and a form of Celtic fusion which incorporates Celtic music, instrumentation and themes into a rock music context...
band The Stone Soup Band.
Mike Hunter is also a Fractal art
Fractal art
Fractal art is a form of algorithmic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, and media. Fractal art developed from the mid 1980s onwards. It is a genre of computer art and digital art which are part of new media art...
ist.