a style of popular music which aims to create a relaxing atmosphere
In the mid-Seventies, Brian Eno pioneered the pop development of 'ambient music':unobtrusive, background noise for the functioning of a futuristic society.
Examples of 'ambient music' in a sentence
ambient music
Spanish ambient music plays as bodies swirl and undulate in the airy space.
Globe and Mail (2003)
Ambient music for those with low attention spans.
The Sun (2018)
Nothing seems fixed, from the curtain backdrops to the ambient music.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Plenty of ambient music deals with alienation, but this is slightly different.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Yet ambient music persists, in its own quiet way.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Oddly beautiful, and beautifully odd, this could make ambient music respectable again.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Other things to do are listen to ambient music and eat teppanyaki.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Though their career amounted to a mere brace of albums, their minimalism and repetition shaped contemporary electronic and ambient music.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It's easy to be cynical about spas: the ambient music, faux reverence and wafts of tropical incense.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But, generally, ambient music is too intrusive for me to use it in a restaurant.