r/ambientmusic

Hello! I've been making non ambient music for a long time and recently I've started a project that requires me to create some ambient music. I get the basic of soundscapes pretty easily, but even listening to examples of stuff close to my goal I have little clue on the composition side of it.

I feel like most of it is improvisational, but when for examples the textures are made to evoke real world atmospheres and are thus not strictly music samples, it seems hard to balance the "when" to play them; and in terms of the actual music I feel most traditional cadences are too resolved to stay lost in the sound and that it's really hard to make a melody that is as ignorable as it is memorable, especially when the BPM get very dilated and the notes feel almost disjointed.

Any tips on these problems? Maybe a bit of a workflow? Most videos I've seen on the topic feel... Lazy. Like "create 2 pads and a chord progression, loop them and remove one sound here and one sound there and that's a song". I don't feel that's how good music is or should be made

I always go to Supermassive by Valhalla but would like to check others out.

thanks

also - favorite preset - stardust with varying wetness

I’m in London from 24th of June until July 10. Anything worth hearing or seeing that’s ambient or electronic while I’m there?

First shows in North America in over 10 years

What album do you recommend that's longer than the traditional 45 - 50 minutes or song that's longer than 8 minutes? TIA.

Put this on today and the whole mood changed immediately.

Curious if this is known here, and what other records do that to you.

Recently have really been getting into ambient and drone music. I've heard a few Eno records, all of Grouper's discog (Really love Ruins, Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill, and Dream Loss) 2 Tim Hecker albums (Really loved Radio Amor), Going Places by Yellow Swans is amazing as well. Green by Hiroshi Yoshimura was great. Heard 2 William Basinski records a very long time ago, gotta revisit them. I'm open to literally anything so give me all ur recommendations, thanks a lot in advance!!

Hey, I am looking for recommendations of albums, artists or tracks that work with a similar vibe and feel. Not noise, but tension. Percussion, but no straight rhythm. Not yet Dub Techno and no chill out. Collages and snippets with some hint of melody.

Does this make sense? Would love to hear some more like this.

A lot of the ambient I listen to either doesn’t evoke temperature or is nice and cool, wet or frozen, or if there is heat, is a pleasant warmth of rays against your skin during mild weather.

I don’t really have anything to produce the image of that dreadful thick humid summer air of June where I live. Nor do I have anything that brings images of the dry dusty ovens of deserts and cracked dirt

Anyone have any ambeint music like this for them?

Looking for some long ambient tunes. Trying to read books on philosophy but find the silence makes me prone to distraction.

Many ambient reading playlists I find are filled with multiple 3-4min tracks but they are so short and the constant changing is distracting

I had an idea today, and I'd love to see what y'all come up with. I feel like the title describes it, so here's the list! It's incomplete, I've absolutely missed some opportunities in here, and I'm intentionally not describing why I chose a song because I want anyone who participates to view each one through their own experience and aesthetic.

Take one, or do them all. Thanks for your input!

• The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand
• The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
• Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True
• Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
• Elliott Smith - Angeles
• Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
• Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
• Coldplay - Yellow
• Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart
• Miles Davis - So What
• Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather

EDIT : I've failed entirely with this post, and I'll take these lessons forward. I'm sorry, friends. My hope was that people would see a song that resonated in a particular way - pop GOAT, overrated, technical mastery, whatever... and pair it with an ambient track that checked the same boxes. So a reply might look like:
"Coldplay - Yellow
An inescapable bop that literally everyone knows, if I'm honest I still love it, but it's just fundamentally overplayed. This is my 'Brian Eno - An Ascent.'"

Hey y'all! I am in search of ambient that is either directly or indirectly tied to nature. Records directly inspired by, sourced from, in tribute to, has album art of, etc. Could also think 'seasonal' if you want. I hope this makes sense..

A couple examples that got me thinking in this direction:

• Omni Gardens - Golden Pair
• Emily A. Sprague - Mount Vision
• Wilson Tanner - 69
• Green-House - Music for Living Spaces
• Patricia Wolf - Hrafnamynd

So I just started ketamine therapy last week for my treatment-resistant depression! And it's been going great, but I very quickly realized I don't have the library for this. There's specialized psychedelic playlists out there, of course, and those are well and good, but I find I get too distracted by switching between a distinct artist's style every track to really concentrate and give the medicine the room to work.

These sessions last about two hours, so what I really want are full albums. (I don't mind multiple different albums!) I'm looking for serene, uplifting vibes. (I'm staying away from soundtracks, because just from necessity the music will have ups and downs in sync with the story.) I'm looking for a steadier vibe. I did pretty well the first session with Bang On A Can's cover of Music For Airports, for instance, but following that up with Brian Eno's Apollo left me feeling cold and alone-- not a great feeling when you're attempting to heal.

So! What are your warmest, kindest, gentlest, and most uplifting albums, reddit? I'm going to be doing nothing but concentrating on this music and absorbing it into my very soul for two hours twice a week for the next three weeks, then once a week going forward for the foreseeable future, so everything helps! I'm a relative novice, so if you think 'no, that's too obvious,' it probably isn't. Please help a newbie out!

Can anyone recommend any artist that use experimental guitar in ambient music?

This is a route that I am wanting to go down with the music I create and I’m looking for inspiration.

Thx!