Music For Libraries is a showcase of innovative Australian ambient and experimental music, riffing on the conceptual Brian Eno Ambient record series of the late 70s and early 80s and featuring the most exciting innovators and practitioners in the country.

Libraries have always been places of intense listening. Deeply communal, public spaces. where a shared, collective, unsaid agreement is made upon entering. Loud discussion is avoided and personal business is gone about quietly and privately, creating an awareness of even the smallest of environmental sounds as we navigate the space.

It seems a logical, thematic extension of the original simple but eloquent philosophical framework underpinning Eno’s original concept of ambient music and one we thought worth exploring. We’ve long thought Eno’s insistence that ‘….ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting’ was one particularly worth exploring within the confines of a library. To celebrate the communal elements of a library as a public space where each individual present is left to engage with the sounds presented to them by the artists performing as actively or as passively as they choose.