Ambient Visions

album cover to Activation by Byron Metcalf and Billy Denk. image shows a swirling sphere in the sky with lightning bolts coming down and striking the ground. mostly orange and yellows.

🎹 Metcalf + Denk = Synergy. 🎹

Explore the "long-distance magic" behind the new album Activation. An exclusive conversation with Byron Metcalf & Billy Denk is now LIVE on Ambient Visions! www.ambientvisions.com/activation.htm #ambient #shamanic #music

Inner City, by DaFou 1 track album

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YouTube video by Martin Stürtzer Ambient liveset - Home Concert 80

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The album comes out March 6.

Album cover for the motion picture soundstrack for Prairie Prophecy music by Tom Griesgraber on Chapman Stick. Cover is split into three images. top image is looking up at a very large old growth tree. the middle picture with the name of the album called The Split shows a tractor plowing a field and the bottom picture are the roots under the earth.

What does the prairie sound like? 🌾

Tom Griesgraber’s new score for The Split uses the Chapman Stick to bridge the gap between geologic time and modern crisis. A world-class translation of ecological vision into strings and synths.
www.ambientvisions.com/03012026.htm #bandcamp #ambient #film

Kaleidoscope, by Chronotope Project 11 track album

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#deeplistening #ambient #electronic

Album cover for 'Cirrus' by Robert Scott Thompson. A striking vertical composition of a sky transitioning from a deep, indigo blue at the base to a brilliant, glowing white at the top. Wispy, delicate cirrus cloud formations streak across the center, appearing almost like brushstrokes of light. The artist’s name and album title are centered in thin, crisp white lettering, echoing the airy, atmospheric theme of the music

www.ambientvisions.com/02282026.htm @rst-ambient.bsky.social Is it music or is it weather?
My review of Robert Scott Thompson’s Cirrus is live. A deep dive into "Vocal Sublimation," where human breath is transformed into high-altitude ice crystals and "Sonic Virga."
#ambientsky #ambient #music

Album cover for 'Cirrus' by Robert Scott Thompson. A striking vertical composition of a sky transitioning from a deep, indigo blue at the base to a brilliant, glowing white at the top. Wispy, delicate cirrus cloud formations streak across the center, appearing almost like brushstrokes of light. The artist’s name and album title are centered in thin, crisp white lettering, echoing the airy, atmospheric theme of the music

The "Technological Banquet" is over and we’re left with the bill. My latest editorial for AV explores how "Boomers" & Gen Z are meeting at the #SonicAltar to reclaim the ritual of ownership. #ambientsky #ambient #bandcamp www.ambientvisions.com/editorial.htm share with other artists you know.

Pre-Order Kaleidoscope from Chronotope Project NOW:
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(digital single “Ariadne’s Thread (remix)” everywhere now.

#ambientelectronic #ambient #meditationmusic #neoclassical #chronotopeproject #preorder #SPM40 #MusicThatInspires #musicisart

A spiral of infinite love, by Bruno Sanfilippo track by Bruno Sanfilippo

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Album cover for 'Imaginary Horizons 2' by Dino Pacifici and Brannan Lane. The artwork features a minimalist and moody landscape where a dark, textured horizon line separates a deep, shadowed foreground from a hazy, luminous sky with a woman in a red dress walking that line with her reflection in the glassy water beside her. A soft, ethereal glow emanates from the center, suggesting either a setting sun or the faint 'Zodiacal Light' of outer space. The overall aesthetic is cinematic and mysterious, mirroring the album's journey from deep-sea depths to cosmic heights. The artist names and title are displayed in clean, modern typography.

Congratulations to Dino Pacifici and Brannan Lane on the release (today) of Imaginary Horizons 2! A brilliant narrative voyage from the seabed to the stars. Check out my full "Sonic Cartography" review at Ambient Visions. 🌌🌊 www.ambientvisions.com/02272026.htm #ambient #music #Bandcamp

Imaginary Rooms, by Jake Soffer & Brent Carmer 6 track album

projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/imagin... Out today. Be sure to check into it. #ambient #ambientsky #Bandcamp

Album cover for 'The North Coast' by Alan Lidden, featuring a minimalist, atmospheric photograph of a vast, misty coastline where grey-blue waters meet a pale, foggy sky, evoking the weightless and ethereal mood of the 59-minute ambient journey

Just emerged from a 59-minute immersion in Alan Lidden's "The North Coast."
A masterpiece of UK guitar-ambient that feels like floating in a weightless tide. Listen for the "Sirens" calling from the drift—spectral, wordless choruses that rise and fall. www.ambientvisions.com/02262026.htm #ambient

School of Rock: The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings Playing the guitar is an art form. But the good vibrations you hear are a science.

"Perhaps the most iconic instrument in modern rock is the guitar. It's really just a bunch of strings stretched across a board, which you can strum to make awesome tunes, thanks to the physics of waves and sound."

School of Rock — The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings:

“We play the machines, and sometimes the machines play us”: Delving into the inner workings of the title track from Kraftwerk’s most influential record Back in the 1970s, Kraftwerk anticipated the machine-dominated world we now inhabit. We prise open The Man Machine to see how they managed it

"We are all familiar with the concept of jamming with friends, where you might try out musical ideas in a band context. Kraftwerk were no different - aside from the fact that they would often let the machines do the playing."

I just posted a review of another of this albums on my website. He also records under the name Alan Lidden. Check it out too www.ambientvisions.com/02262026.htm

Yes it does. A little older release but music doesn't have an expiration date. 😀

Island of Ghosts EP, by Daniel Land 8 track album

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Live through VHS camcorder.
Filmed by @jamesadrianbrown.bsky.social on tour last year in Bristol and Plymouth…

Against Empire: an Interview with Bill Laswell Free Jazz Collective, reviews of avant garde and free jazz music and media

"From his discographic beginnings in the downtown New York scene in the late 1970s with Material and Massacre, and working with, among many others, Brian Eno, Ginger Baker, Laurie Anderson, Fred Frith and John Zorn, Bill Laswell has created his own musical universe."

The Untethered Electronics of Briana Marela | The Tonearm The experimental musician splits her time between soldering synthesizers at Buchla and touring the country with wearable instruments that let her move freely through audiences. Her intimate new album, 'My Inner Rest,' offers a glimpse.

Experimental sound-auteur Briana Marela splits her time between soldering synthesizers at Buchla and touring the country with wearable instruments that let her move freely through audiences. Her intimate new album, 'My Inner Rest,' offers a glimpse.

The Untethered Electronics of Briana Marela:

Album cover for 'Activation' by Byron Metcalf and Billy Denk, featuring a vibrant, glowing geometric lattice of golden and orange light against a deep, cosmic dark background, evoking a sense of energetic alignment and shamanic rhythm.

Byron Metcalf & Billy Denk return with Activation. This isn't just a collaboration; it's a cross-country synergy of shamanic percussion and deep-space guitar textures. Recorded between Arizona and Illinois, it’s a masterclass in "organic-ambient" flow. www.ambientvisions.com/02252026.htm #shamanic

YouTube video by Richard W Klaus Schulze - Sebastian Im Traum

This evenings after-work listen...

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RIP Éliane Radigue...

YouTube video by Jake Shimabukuro Jake Shimabukuro, Mick Fleetwood - Whiter Shade of Pale

youtu.be/IIJyxtQI3Nk?... Interesting with Mick Fleetwood on the drums.

Time is a Succession of Such Shapes, by LOULA YORKE 16 track album

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I'm sure it is a very good bowl though. 🤣 Maybe not a 10,000 pound bowl but very good. hehehe

Temple of boom! Why Taiwan’s religious sites are becoming unlikely rave venues Dance culture faces barriers in Taiwan, with frequent raids on nightclubs. But Temple Meltdown is trying a different tack, with sound systems overseen by gods

"When Andrew Dawson brings a sound system to Puji Temple in Tainan, Taiwan, for lunar new year celebrations, its deities keep watch. Behind the plywood speaker stack hangs a circular plaque of Caishen, the Chinese god of prosperity."

Why Taiwan’s religious sites are becoming unlikely rave venues:

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