"Ambient Music" Blogs & Blog Posts

There's a great selection of free ambient sounds on Moodist. This online sound generator offers 54 types of sounds that automatically generate when you select one and click play. You can choose from rain, animals, city, transportation, and many other...

Synthesized Sounds of the Sea is a new project from composer Tomer Baruch — a concept album (with accompanying music videos like the one above), comprised of instrumental synthesizer music, with each song inspired by a different deep-sea creature.

Substrata is the third studio album by Biosphere (Geir Jenssen), a Norwegian electronic musician. This ambient treasure was released in 1997 and has a theme of snowy mountains, glaciers, running water, and blowing wind. Its sounds are both peaceful a...

GREEN is an ambient album from 1986 by Hiroshi Yoshimura, a pioneer of ambient music in Japan. Besides working on personal projects and performing, he's made music for galleries, museums, buildings, and train stations. Yoshimura's music is part o...

If you're into ambient music, Tim Hecker's 2006 album Harmony In Ultraviolet is an essential listen. Tim Hecker is a Canadian sound artist. He makes experimental, ambient, and electronic music. Harmony In Ultraviolet gives me the peaceful yet eerie f...

Make Noise primarily traffics in experimental Eurorack modules like Morphagene and Maths. But a few years ago it made a play for a more entry level space with the 0-Coast, a compact modular synthesizer that blended the two popular schools of synthesi...

Sometimes I come across an effect pedal that almost feels like cheating because it just makes everything sound amazing. Empress Effects’ Reverb and Earthquaker Devices’ Afterneath come to mind. And now, Hologram Electronics’ Microcosm joins tha...