This weeks in Lectorial, Rachel stressed the importance of sound and how it can make or break any film/video. Ambience is a key component in a layered audio composition. It is the backbone where the ‘figure’ is heard. The ‘ground’ brings both these elements together to form a spacial and directional feeling of a scene.
Films like the Revenant succeed at seducing the audience because of the focus on rich environmental cues. When I watched The Revenant in the cinemas the sound was so spot on i felt like i could have been in the wilderness hiding from a blizzard. Breaking this down more, it was the ambience each location which pulled me in.
Ambience in any media is key. For example a photo of a babies room could evoke an ambience of silence or screeching.
Ambient music can do the same, only it forms an imaginative image as well as emotion. Listening to though many songs and mixes theres nothing ive listened to before thats quite like Sounds of Dawn.
https://www.mixcloud.com/NTSRadio/sounds-of-the-dawn-27th-june-2015/
It takes ambience to a new level for me as it puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. Its a concoction of synths and environmental noises which meld together to give rich textures. Two sections which i would recommend are at 0:23minutes and 1:31. Actually listening to the mix instead of hearing is really meditative especially at 1:31. You need to put a big of time aside for it but its worth it.