There are entries on the Disquiet Junto in the book The Music Production Cookbook: Ready-made Recipes for the Classroom (Oxford University Press), edited by Adam Patrick Bell.December 13, 2021: This day marked the 25th (!) anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.January 6, 2021: This day marked the 10th (!) anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.December 28, 2021: This day marked the 10th (!) anniversary of the Instagr/am/bient compilation.March 11, 2022: I hosted a panel discussion between Mark Fell, Rian Treanor and James Bradbury in San Francisco as part of the Algorithmic Art Assembly ( ) at Gray Area ( ).April 16, 2022: I participated in an online 'talk show' by The Big Conversation Space (Niki Korth and Clémence de Montgolfier).January 6, 2023: This day marked the 11th anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.December 13, 2022: This day marks the 26th anniversary of the founding of.To the This Week in Sound e-newsletter on Substack (Vibe’s overall rise in the Ngram, it should be noted, begins almost exactly with the launch, in 1993, of the magazine Vibe.)Ĭonversations with musicians/artists/coders If these two are on the decline, what is on the rise?īraulio Agnese noted for me the relative prominence is flipped in Google Trends.Ī friend, Jimmy Kipple, suggested “chill,” and that seems like a good bet, even more right than I’d imagined.Ĭhill is the word (is the word, is the word that you heard)Ĭhill is the time, is the place, is the motionĪnother friend, Robert Boyd, had a good call: “vibe.” On the one hand, “vibe” is lower than “ambient” or “chill.” On the other, “vibe” is a much closer synonym for “ambience” and “ambiance,” and its rise aligns with their decline. Maybe Google’s Ngram is looking at different sources than I am. I would have thought “ambience” on the rise in particular the past few years.

I would have thought it the opposite (ambiance > ambience).

Ambiance vs ambience