Ott, Willits + Sakamoto, and Jon Hopkins
Celebrating Headphone Commute’s many years of content, I am highlighting albums that I covered 15, 10, and 5 years ago.
Celebrating Headphone Commute’s many years of content, I am highlighting albums that I covered 15, 10, and 5 years ago.
… ambient music has become a pool of musical diversity […] and more about a basic feeling of freedom and an experimental environment…
A selection of pieces inspiring Sofia Nystrand while composing her new album
“… it starts with sound… experimenting with sound… it truly gets me inspired… it’s what I react to…”
“… delicate pauses, which break free from the constraints of the predicted and the foreseen…”
“… a captivating progression […] with an endlessly interwoven carpet of sound that spreads out over six etudes…”
“… I like the idea of creating a sonic bed to lie down in, especially in the early stages of a track…”
“… an expansive sonic architecture, balancing exquisite composition with space for improvisation…”
“… I froze a bell strike and extended it for hours [and] noticed overtones, hidden sub-tones, and even entire harmonies within that single strike…”