In discussing Satie's "furniture music" (Musique d'ameublement) and, contrastingly, Satie's Parade, Toop identifies "two opposing characteristics of ambient music" (197)
one type of ambient makes a hybrid of "new styles, sounds, and technologies which [draw] the environment to itself" and one "[blends] into any environment"
"In the former, the environment is transmuted by the composer; in the latter, the composer is transmuted by the environment" (198)