I reckon I’m one of relatively few people who has heard (or at least noticed) Brian Eno’s ambient, avante garde experiment ‘Music for Airports’, in an airport. The airport in question was Bangkok airport, at the end of my first ‘big trip’ to Asia, 9 years ago. As I pushed my way through the vaulted, 70’s styled, cathedral-like spaces swarming with global business commuters and Hong Kong jet-set, a wide-eyed 21 year-old, disorientated and still drunk from the night before, I became aware of some faint, galactic orchestral sounds ebbing and flowing into the cavernous halls like a rogue transmission from another dimension. Everyone around me seemed so oblivious to it that for a while I began to worry the noises were coming from inside my head. I was close to stopping someone and saying “Excuse me, Can you hear that ?” but a bit frightened of them saying no. (more…)