brettworks

Ambience is bonus resonance, a reverb that softens sound’s blow. To add ambience is to place a sound in a space whose dimensions and materials color how we hear. Tones now dissolve at their edges, like candle wax around the flame. Quick sounds get hang time, long sounds linger, beginnings and ends become one. Ambience conjures the acoustics of places–real-world or virtual–we’ve never been, but now that we feel them imagine ourselves there. Ambience is like memory, a resonant space in which your imagination floats like a tone heard from afar.