r/ambient

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This is my collection of bold and experimental electronic music by genre pioneers and outsiders. Hope you enjoy

u/Defiant_Process_992 — 1 day ago

mixing ambient

hi there!

i’ve been listening ambient for a few years and currently practicing my mixing/djing skills.
I would love to create an ambient set and was wondering if any of you have any sort of tips or recommendations to mix ambient.
so far I’ve been experimenting with a lot of reverb and delays, and making transitions last longer than a normal techno set, mixing textures and so on, but would appreciate any other advise :)

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u/thunderbird-am-i — 1 day ago
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This is my collection of delicate ambience with a slight touch of melancholy that will definitely help calm things down for you. Happy listening!

u/Defiant_Process_992 — 1 day ago

Cariasona - Perennial

Gentle textures drift slowly through the air while subtle birdsong forms a continuous natural bed beneath the music — calm, distant, and ever-present. The piece moves without urgency, inviting stillness, reflection, and quiet renewal.

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u/pwunderland — 3 days ago
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Nocturne - SIDEWAYS | Dark Phonk + Dark Ambient [Official Lyrical Video]

>!Hey r/newmusic! Just dropped a new track SIDEWAYS – a dark, cinematic phonk track with heavy dark ambient vibes. Would love your support and feedback! 🖤!<

Artist: Nocturne Studio

Genre: Dark Phonk / Dark Ambient

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u/Only-Economist1887 — 6 days ago
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industrial drone-ambient / ASMR track (can't get rid of distorted buzz when played at high volume) - YouTube

Demo version 1 of an industrial drone-ambient / ASMR track. I can't seem to get rid of this distorted buzz coming through on my speakers throughout the song, but particularly in the louder moments, even though nothing seems to be clipping.

I've tried taming peaks with soft clipper, sweeping to find the trouble frequencies and filtering them out, using a limiter etc.
Maybe it's my speakers, but when using reference tracks they don't seem to get the same amateurish buzz.

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u/Clem_Crozier — 7 days ago
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Harp-Sigil-Magic: The Platonic Forms of Harp Melodies (experimental art-music)

Harp-Sigil-Magic: the Platonic Forms of Harp Melodies is an experimental art-animation-music magical event. All art, animations, and music were created entirely 100% by me. The intention underlying this work is to coagulate musical and artistic disciplines in an alchemical experiment, creating art that is also music, art-music as a form of magic. I take Novalis’s concept of the musical hieroglyphic language and unity of disciplines as a creative impetus and guiding star in this endeavor—I should mention that I am a PhD student and Novalis/esotericism scholar, so I am a practicing musician-artist-academic-magus. I also have a lot of other experimental esoteric and philosophical music, so feel free to check out my repertoire!

Harp-Sigil-Magic awakens new horizons for my compositional work, entering a new threshold of musical experimentation. For the first time, I expand beyond basic harmonies into 6^(th) and 7^(th) chord structures and beyond, further into more expanded harmonic tiers, delving into more complex and unstable harmonies, harmonies that play with tension. This piece is structured around a D–G quartal relation in C minor; this harmonic interval is more dissonant in the sense that it is less harmonically resolving, with fewer harmonic possibilities with or adjacent to it, its capacity to create harmonies more limited compared to other quartal intervals. I took this limitation as a compositional challenge and starting point, structuring the piece around it.

This piece is a fantasia, which combines both structured melodies and improvisation. I came up with a set of primary melodies that I explored and developed over months through improvisation. The final recording was crystallized over two improvisational sessions. With the exception of The Cosmic Symphony of Melusine, all of my piano/harp instrumental pieces were essentially composed in this manner, endeavoring to capture both structured harmony and the lightning-in-a-bottle quality that arises through inspired improvisation.

Absolutely no AI was used in the making/creation/composition of this song and video, and I have taken a firm and unequivocal stance against AI in my own artistic/musical/compositional/philosophical practice. Despite a social climate where AI is polluting artistic and musical landscapes with automated sludge, a time when it feels almost pointless to create real art and music, some of us musicians and artists, such as myself, are undeterred by the artistic/musical apocalypse that is upon us, continuing to making art/music that pushes boundaries, striving for the philosopher’s stone through art and music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mNJD1aN2E

u/starryspaces — 9 days ago
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Can anyone help me find this song/artist?

(video starts louder than I was anticipating, fair warning)

Thank you!

u/DrKushnstein — 9 days ago
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Glinca - Frame Fanstatico

Hi all!
My last album "Frame Fantastico" is out!
Limited edition, 30 hand-numbered copies. The record comes packaged with 8 photographs (10×15, digitally processed) by Tazio Iacobacci and one by Francesco Cantone, printed on 300 gsm hammered paper, a numbered miniature of the cover, and a few other unspecified gadgets.
Thanks to anyone who wants to give it a listen!

https://glinca.bandcamp.com/album/frame-fantastico

u/Glincamusic — 13 days ago
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Some storms don’t ask to be escaped from — only experienced." 2 Hours of Heavy Rain on Tent (4K / 432Hz + 528Hz)

​I’ve always found that the sound of rain hitting a canvas tent creates a specific kind of "safehouse" feeling that nothing else can match.

​This is Episode 13th of my Earth Odyssey series. It’s a 4K cinematic journey featuring a secluded forest sanctuary, a silver-gray Siberian Husky, and a relentless heavy downpour.

​If you’re looking for a place to disappear into the dark greens and deep blues of a rainy evening, I hope this sanctuary helps you find your center tonight. 🛰️💙

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u/No_Entrance2726 — 10 days ago

What makes ambient music “work” for you?

Ambient music can be very subtle. Sometimes a track barely changes for minutes, but still feels emotional or immersive.

For me, the interesting part is often not the melody, but the space around the sound: the reverb, the texture, the slow movement, the feeling that you are inside a place rather than listening to a traditional song.

What makes ambient music work for you?
Is it atmosphere, emotion, sound design, repetition, field recordings, or something else?

#AmbientMusic #ElectronicMusic #SoundDesign #DroneMusic #ExperimentalMusic

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u/FDR_blog — 14 days ago