Ambient music: (ambient music) Ambient music, also known as "background music", is a kind of music used in different environments such as offices, lounges, supermarkets, cafes, restaurants, and even family life. Auxiliary music that creates some kind of profitable effect to improve the psychological and physiological environment or increase work efficiency. In business and tourism, "background music" plays a certain economic supporting role. In business, ambient music can influence consumers’ purchasing habits. Research shows that ambient music solutions designed according to consumers’ psychological, environmental and other characteristics can slow down customers unconsciously and extend their shopping time. Sales volume increased by 38% compared with normal environment. Of course, it is not only for such a commercial purpose, but more importantly, we will create a peaceful and comfortable shopping environment for customers. Playing in the factory workshop or office will be based on the working environment and Music specially designed for employees' psychological state can not only improve the working environment and reduce employee work stress, but more importantly, enhance work efficiency and employee harmony.
Ambient music exists in all aspects of daily life. We divide it into 7 categories according to the circumstances in which it is used:
1. Ambient music used in home life: including family life Getting up, eating, going to bed, resting, as well as ambient music used in community construction, parks, and squares. Here, ambient music, sculpture, architecture and other arts simultaneously serve people's daily lives, creating a beautiful environment in the human world, relaxing people's body and mind, and eliminating the impetuousness, fatigue and discomfort caused by work.
2. Ambient music in commercial activities: including supermarkets, shopping malls, restaurants, bars, dance halls, coffee shops and other profitable places. Ambient music creates a shopping and consumption environment for people, promotes marketing, and improves economic benefits. .
3. Ambient music used in industry: including ambient music used in factories, enterprises and other places. The main purpose of using ambient music in these places is to eliminate workers' boredom and fatigue with the same job, improve work efficiency, mobilize workers' enthusiasm, and fully embody a humanized environment.
4. Ambient music used in the tourism industry: including ambient music used in tourist attractions, hotels, restaurants and other places. Tourist attractions use ambient music to make the scenery more distinctive under the background of music; hotels and restaurants can make guests feel at home and give guests a sense of psychological comfort and warmth.
5. Ambient music in the transportation industry: including music used in waiting rooms, waiting rooms, airplanes, trains, ships, airplanes, etc. Ambient music can eliminate people's anxiety while waiting to buy tickets and make them feel calm; using it on transportation can reduce people's fatigue during the journey and make the journey pleasant and short.
6. Ambient music used in the medical field: including music used in public places, operating rooms, wards, etc. in hospitals, can reduce patients’ tension about their own illnesses, reduce noise, and create a sense of comfort for patients. A comfortable environment can adjust their psychology and relieve doctors' work, so that the operation can go smoothly. [8] In addition, the music currently used in some eco-recuperations such as SPA also belongs to environmental music.
7. Ambient music used in social occasions: including birthday songs at birthday parties, relaxing ambient music at negotiation meetings, and folk songs in social situations between men and women, etc.
In addition, it is common practice to play ambient music to adjust the atmosphere in schools, courts and other occasions.
From the meaning of environmental music itself and its application fields, we can extend the concept of environmental music design, which is based on music psychology, musicology, psychology and Fundamentals of music therapy. Consider the physical, mental, social, interpersonal, and efficiency effects of people and music.