Music isn’t a new phenomenon in airport terminals. Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports,” an album released in 1978, helped define the ambient music genre. It’s minimalist and designed to calm.

In 1994, Microsoft designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk reached out to composer Brian Eno for ... of ambient music’s earliest pioneers. His 1978 album, Ambient 1: Music for Airports, even ...