The concept of ambient has come a long way since Brian Eno’s Music for Airports in 1978. With its successful seepage into the world of art and advertising, its ubiquity has resulted in it becoming a fully-grown cultural logic in its own right. As advertisements now appear everywhere, from bus tickets through to toilet viewrinals, Neil Mulholland takes us on a tour of the latest developments in ambient brandalism, ambicommerce and jambient forms of culture jamming

After Karlheinz Stockhausen's controversial outpouring post 9/11, it was a surprise to find the Barbican's Electronic festival - which showcased his greatest works - completely sold out. Anne Hilde Neset and Lina Dzuverovic-Russell learn what sounds to listen out for in Stockhausen's work and sample the club of the future with Aphex Twin, October 01

>>Electronic Festival, Barbican Hall, London 13 - 18 October 2001

After Karlheinz Stockhausen's controversial outpouring that the attacks on America were 'Lucifer's greatest work of art', confusion reigned as to whether the Electronic festival (based around the works of Stockhausen) at London's Barbican Centre would indeed go ahead. Whether it was the excess publicity caused by the controversy that sold out the show, or whether Stocky just is really pop is for anyone to know.