furniture music

English

Etymology

Calque of French musique d’ameublement (literally “furnishing music”), coined by Erik Satie in 1917.

Noun

furniture music (uncountable)

1. (music) Background music originally played by live performers.
   • 2018, John T. Lysaker, Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 84:

     Furniture music is thus more like a chair than a painting in a gallery. One sits in rather than contemplates the chair. So too furniture music: “it creates vibration; it has no other purpose; it fills the same role as light, warmth and comfort in all its forms.”

See also

• ambient music

Further reading

• furniture music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia