The listener should be engaged without being subjected to sounds.
In real-world conditions, listening is selective, and the listener engaged by interesting environmental events by choice. Composition of atmospheres with attention to the ways sounds rise and fall in the locations and settings of everyday perceptual experiences creates musical pieces that do not imprint themselves upon consciousness, but rather enhance awareness.
That, then, is the goal of these works. Their relationship to minimalism, "ambient music", classical music, popular music, or even music in general is slight, if, in fact, it exists at all.
Obscure Terrain by Black Mountain School
Delmarva (Excerpt) by Black Mountain School
The Voice of Time in Gold by Ghost Radio Orchestra
Obscure Terrain by Black Mountain School
Delmarva (Excerpt) by Black Mountain School
The Voice of Time in Gold by Ghost Radio Orchestra
