|
Composer
|
Piece
|
Year
|
Mental
State
|
|
Debussy
|
Prelude
a l'Apres
Midi
|
1891
|
New
mental states
|
|
Delius
|
On
Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring
|
1912
|
New
mental states
|
|
Satie
|
Furniture
Music
|
1920
|
New
mental states
|
|
Rodrigo |
Concierto de Aranjuez |
1939 |
Exotic Dream States |
|
Messiaen
|
Turangalila Symphony (Garden Of
Sleeping Love
|
1946
|
Exotic Dream States
|
|
John Cage
|
'Dream'/ 'In A Landscape'
|
1948
|
Zen |
|
Morton Subotnik
|
Elevator Music |
1970s
|
Electronic Futurism |
|
La Monte Young
|
The Well-Tuned Piano |
1964-1979 |
MIT Neurosurgeons played with
biofeedback musician David Rosenbloom, Longest running installation Dream
House, recorded 45 times before released = exceptional psychological state
music |
|
Jon Hassell
|
Aka Darbari Java |
1983
|
Magic Realism |
|
Arvo Part
|
Fur Alisa / Spiegel Im Spiegel |
1999 |
Divine, spiritual states |
|
Lou Harrison
|
Perilous Chapel |
1948 |
Planetary Music |
|
The Beatles
|
Revolution 9 |
1968
|
Radical rock Ambience designed
to invoke different mental states |
| Jimi
Hendrix |
A
Merman |
1968 |
Radical rock Ambience designed
to invoke different mental states |
| Steve Miller Band |
Children
of the Future album |
1968 |
Psychedelic Ambient State |
|
Nick Drake
|
River Man (Five Leaves Left) |
1968 |
Unique folk ambience |
|
Grateful Dead
|
Dark Star
|
1969
|
Psychedelic Ambient State
|
|
Popol Vuh
|
(any
album) |
|
German spiritual Ambience |
|
Tonto's Expanding Headband
|
Zero Time |
1971 |
Unique exploration of mind
alteration using prototype synthesizers |
|
Vangelis
|
Blade Runner ST |
1982
|
Nostalgic Futurism |
|
Durutti Column
|
Sketch For Summer
(Return Of The Durutti
Column ) |
1980 |
Unique New Wave Pastoral
Ambience |
|
Van Morrison
|
Coney Island
(Avalon Sunset) |
1989
|
Unique Celtic memory states |
| Pauline Oliveros |
Deep Listening |
1989
|
Hardcore reality ambience |
|
Spacemen 3
|
Transparent Radiation
(Flashback) |
1987 |
One chord Minimalism meets
Ecstasy meets unique Rock |
|
Bill Nelson
|
Chance Encounters In The
Garden
Of
Light
|
1988 |
Magical,
Occult States |
|
David Sylvian
|
Steel Cathedrals |
1985 |
Physical, geographic Ambience |
|
Laraaji
|
Flow Goes The Universe |
1991 |
Programmable Purposeful
Mood
State
Ambience |
|
KLF
|
Chill Out |
1990 |
First ever purpose-built
Chill-Out Record |
|
Enigma
|
Sadeness
|
1991 |
Spiritual House |
|
Mixmaster Morris
|
Flying High |
1992 |
Ethno/Mystical Ambience |
|
Future
Sound of London
|
As Amorphous Androgynous - The
Isness |
1993
|
New Oriental Techno/Rock
Ambience |
|
Aphex Twin
|
Selected Ambient Works 2 |
1994
|
|
| Geir Jenssen |
Patashnik
Substrata |
1994
1997 |
Introverted artic spatial drone |
| Thomas Koner |
Nunatak Gongamur
Permafrost |
1990
1993 |
Introverted artic drone |
| Paul Schutze |
Apart
Third Site |
1994
1999 |
Warm, exotic, dreamy isolationaism |
|
Brian Jones
|
The Pipes Of Pan At Jajouka |
1995
|
First ever trance ambience,
essential album of 20th Century |
|
Bill Laswell
|
Lost in The Translation |
1994 |
Unique evocation of lost
recordings, archaeological ambience |
| Bill Laswell |
Baptism Of Solitude |
1996 |
Unique evocation of lost
recordings, archaeological Ambience |
|
Moby
|
Underwater 1-5 (Everything Is Wrong) |
1995 |
New atmospheric Ambience
inspired by Erik Satie |
|
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|
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