Recommendations for ambient music? (I like to listen to ambient stuff when I read)

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pino · Answer

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Eric F · Answer

are we dreaming? / ambient music playlist - Antent 💭: Tracks feature a nice balance of melody and atmosphere.

JJ · Answer

Chihei Hatakeyama: Japanese ambient music is a must for anyone interested in exploring the genre. Chihei Hatakeyama is a favourite artist of mine, his Void series in particular are  beautifully serene albums.

bandy ✨ · Answer

ambient for jas: i made this for my friend and it is all warm ambient. good energy only

BORSCHT BABY · Answer

here ~ ~ ✿ ~ ✶ ~ ✦ ~ ❋ ~ ~ ✿: Ambient sounds - to create space for thinking and calm, to be immersed in a sonic world, to use as a tool for healing

I made this playlist for my radio show a few years ago <3

samael · Answer

air texture: y’all sad peaceful sacks can have my ambient playlist.

it’s on my old spotify and it’s a decade old with 107 hours of melodies that ebb and flow in varying states of being pretty restful. can filter through for whatever you need.

just try to listen in a park or somewhere pretty. or in some temperature of water. and you’ll feel a lil more okay.

artifact from my youth when life is usually p dumpy and you need a ambient bucket of things that feel like velvet static and sound like filled nothings rising + falling behind your eyes.

cover from Rinko Kawauchi ~~~

Matt · Answer

Eberhard Weber - The Following Morning: Not ambient per se, but spacious chamber jazz with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and without any percussion. A great companion album for a long reading session spent with a book in which the narrative takes it time.

Matt · Answer

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II: Has an uncanny habit of matching the mood of whatever you're reading.

Paul Clarkson · Answer

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich Ensemble): I find that this piece, especially the ECM recording, makes for great background listening when I need to focus.

Rish · Answer

The Disintegration Loops: The Disintegration Loops, created by William Basinski, are a collection of six distinct pieces of music. To make each one, Basinski started with an intact tape recording of the piece, then he fed it through a tape machine, which re-recorded the tape. He did this repeatedly, and as the tape began to disintegrate, the recording would fall apart aurally. He does this for 6 tapes, which were released across 4 volumes. These are very interesting listens, as these beautiful arabesques emerge and disappear as the tape falls apart, eventually fading into a low, droning note as the tape disintegrates completely. Listening to this work really makes you reflect on your own life as you hear it slowly falling apart into these beautiful colors, then into nothing. It is  a worthwhile listen, in my opinion. They were recorded in August and September 2001, with the final recording session coincidentally on the morning of September 11th. The work's correlation to that event does not go unnoticed, and knowing this context certainly puts the music in a different context. The album covers from this collection are pictures of the view outside of Basinski's apartment as the evening of September 11th progressed. This is definitely a worthy listen for anyone into the more atmospheric and experimental side of music.

Rish · Answer

Ghosts I-IV (Nine Inch Nails): I’ll start this off with my go-to. It’s got that industrial industrial texture to it and just itches your brain perfectly