Xpat Review: Music Created By Budapest Earthquake

'Music for Airports' is regarded as the first significant piece of ambient music, released by Brian Eno in 1978. Talking about the piece, Eno said:

"I found this very short section of tape where two pianos, unbeknownst to each other, played melodic lines that interlocked in an interesting way. To make a piece of music out of it, I cut that part out, made a stereo loop, then I discovered I liked it best at half speed, so the instruments sounded very soft, and the whole movement was very slow."

Dave says he put his smash mash together, "Using raw seismological data from earthquake stations in Tés (Left channel) and Budapest (Right channel)... 3 hours of observational data have been turned into just over 30 minutes of ambience, processed only through harmonic generators, with no other effects or post processing applied".

Eno conceived his groundbreaking idea while stuck at an Airport in Germany, with Music For Airports designed to defuse the anxious atmosphere of that travel terminal.

Some may say this new tune by Dave could create the type of feeling Eno's masterpiece was created to change, others might find it has a hauntingly supernatural and spooky vibe, anyway to find out if you dig it's magnitude and intensity click here to have a listen.

Dave has certainly succeeded in shaking a seismic wave of sound together, and amongst others he wishes to thank Dr. Tóth László at the GeoRisk Earthquake Research Institute for support with this contemporary composition based on the movement of faults.