Suspect Systems
Some dark-ish, synthy type space stuff available for free download from Suspect Systems, from Australia via Berlin.
Charcoal Flowers by Dulceflur
Charcoal Flowers by Dulceflur, which the artist says is "...music in the vein of Stars of The Lid and Hammock." Nicely done, and available for free download to boot.
in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word project
This is kind of nice. "In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls."
Sketches by Library Tapes
Another nice record from Sweden's Library Tapes, this time on the friendly Home Normal label. Various links below to address your sampling and purchasing needs.
Sketches by Library Tapes on eMusic.com Sketches by Library Tapes on Amazon.com MP3 Downloads Sketches by Library Tapes on iTunes (opens iTunes) Buy Sketches CD from Home Normal
"Swine Flu Hemagglutinin"
Not really what I'd call "ambient" music, but interesting nonetheless.
The algorithm I used is a bit complicated, but just in case you’re curious: since the gene is expressed as a surface protein antibodies can sense, it’s considered as a string of amino acids. Each beat corresponds to one amino acid, and the piece is in 3/4 time, so each six measures would correspond to five turns around the alpha structure.
“Swine Flu Hemagglutinin”: amino acid sequence as ambient music
(Live +) In Person
I have to say, I find seeing ambient artists doing live shows to be pretty boring. I find the music to be pretty useless without some context for, well, use. I'm falling pretty hard here into one side of what an old literary theory professor of mine called the Kant/St. Augustine divide, and I think that's fine. Maybe you have other ideas, and I think that's fine as well.
But I'm also pretty interested in expanding the spirit of what this site has been doing for the last few years, and so I'd like to start thinking about some ways of getting the music I point to on this site out from under your headphones and out into the actual world for use. But in a way that's a bit more indirect than promoting live shows. That's not very interesting to me.
So consider this an invitation for artists, designers, and anyone else reading to collaborate on some kind of project that applies ambient music to the world. I really have no idea what that means, but I'd like to try to do something. If you have an interest, or ideas, or anything, leave a comment, shoot me an email at ambientmusicblog at gmail.com, or berate me via twitter.com/ambientmusic.
Carl Sagan's Ghost
I like the name, I like the records. Behind Clouds