Ambient is atmosphere cast in sound. The genre was founded by artists such as Brian Eno, Harold Budd and Isao Tomita. Today, Biosphere, Tim Hecker and William Basinski are among the best-known interpreters of this original variant. Early on, this genre combined synthesizer sounds and field recordings as well as organic instrumental sounds. The experimental and atmospheric guitar sounds of King Crimson mastermind Robert Fripp, for example, who has been collaborating with Brian Eno on and off since 1972, are considered to be influential in the style. Thanks to inspiration from other musical styles such as techno, dub, psytrance, house, world music, as well as pop, rock industrial and metal, numerous captivating subgenres have emerged. And technical milestones such as granular synthesis and resynthesis have paved the way for stylistic…