Soundtrackfilter: Please recommend to me mostly-instrumental, sometimes dark, contemplative soundtrack albums (or even compilations or regular albums) in the vein of Michael Andrews' work for Donnie Darko or Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd's soundtrack for Mysterious Skin. [more inside]
posted by Inspector.Gadget on Sep 26, 2009 - 24 answers

Music recommendations at two ends of the spectrum: Soul/R&B and Ambient/Drone/F'd up 20th C. classical... And, bonus question: what are your favorite sources for buying these kinds of music and finding out more about them? Examples of what I like inside... [more inside]
posted by You Should See the Other Guy on Aug 26, 2009 - 19 answers

I've got a PC, and an EMU-49 key midi controller. I've also got an Audiophile 192 sound card with midi-in-out connections. What I want to do is play some synths on the PC.... [more inside]
posted by Thistledown on Aug 2, 2009 - 14 answers

On Geir Jenssen's (AKA Biosphere) 2006 Album Cho Oyu 8201m - Field Recordings From Tibet, the song "Summit" features a speaking sample near the end where someone named Boutros calls in on a two-way radio and warns the other party of an oncoming typhoon. The next-to-last line of the conversation is "The good king in his infinite wisdom declared the two-way radio illegal in the mountains." Where is this sample from?
posted by Inspector.Gadget on Jul 11, 2009 - 4 answers

Looking for something along the lines of the theme to the movie Halloween, the Dark Knight Soundtrack or the background music to this amazing commercial [more inside]
posted by MaddyRex on Apr 24, 2009 - 14 answers

I'd like an introduction to Japanese jazz/piano ambient. Where should I start? Who's great? Who should I avoid?
posted by Xurando on Jan 26, 2009 - 7 answers

More Flash ambient sound toys, please! [more inside]
posted by grobstein on Jan 19, 2009 - 9 answers

MusicFilter: I'm looking for ambient music that features short &/or fragmentary bits of monologue or narrative. [more inside]
posted by jammy on Oct 15, 2008 - 30 answers

This week an organization I work with is running a big, high energy (iPhone and Wii giveaways, the whole 9 yards) event geared towards high-school students. I'm tasked with organizing some of the creative/design aspects of it, but I've hit a few dead ends, specifically in the area of what I would call ambient video. [more inside]
posted by niles on Oct 11, 2008 - 1 answer

Tell me about ambient & instrumental music that features vibraphones, marimbas, xylophones &/or similar instruments. [more inside]
posted by jammy on Sep 27, 2008 - 27 answers

Calling all Germanic (and Slavic) rockers, ravers and, uh, *insert classical term that starts with "r"*! Help me expand my music collection with European melodies! [more inside]
posted by curagea on Aug 15, 2008 - 13 answers

Flash? After effects? Maya? Toon Boom? Something else? I want to make some very simple abstract animation videos. The simplest would be just full screens of solid colors fading slowly into each other. Slightly more complex would be the same full screens of colors fading into each other, but not all at once. That is, maybe start the fade in the center or corner, and slowly leak in the new color. Or another slightly more complex: The screen divided into multiple blocks of different color that slowly fade into other colors. Real simple, slow, mellow stuff. So, what's the right software for that? Thanks!
posted by The Dutchman on Apr 28, 2008 - 11 answers

I'm trying to find a music streaming website I found through StumpleUpon a few months ago, and the main theme was night and roadtrip music. [more inside]
posted by TheWaves on Apr 9, 2008 - 3 answers

I love listening to the groaning music of Mark Morgan (the Fallout soundtracks) and Lustmord (dark, dark ambient) while I read. I've been trying to find some similar music, but last.fm insists that Mark Morgan is like all other game soundtrack composers and Lustmord is akin to gothic wailing*. So I turn to you. What other artists make music with this grinding, eerie, screetchingly dark post-apocalyptic quality? * Nothing wrong with gothic wailing, just not when I'm reading.
posted by Skyanth on Mar 27, 2008 - 19 answers

I'm looking for music similar to the Quake 1 soundtrack. [more inside]
posted by Black Spring on Jan 29, 2008 - 13 answers

Looking for excellent indie ambient music. [more inside]
posted by crickets on Jan 7, 2008 - 32 answers

Looking for spacey ambient guitar recommendations. [more inside]
posted by jchgf on Sep 17, 2007 - 40 answers

Barring nose plugs and closing windows, is there a way to eliminate the ambient skunk stench that's wafting into the house? [more inside]
posted by CKmtl on Sep 16, 2007 - 9 answers

In W Hotels and some sushi spots I frequent, on the video screens, I see some "ambient" scenery (I guess from DVD). These are things like videos from forest scenes or videos of water or other computer/color visualizations set to music or completely silent. Can the hive point me in the direction of either forest/nature videos or ambient "visualization" videos?
posted by arimathea on Feb 4, 2007 - 9 answers

Help me find more "classical" music that I will like. There is... [more inside]
posted by beaucoupkevin on Sep 19, 2006 - 33 answers

Easily scrape-able sources of varying data on the web, ideally reflecting natural phenomena? I need some help finding sources. [more inside]
posted by Jimbob on Jun 2, 2006 - 6 answers

Ambient/chill artist search: a band with a green album cover, 4 letters, 2 middle letters are "oo"(I think). Heard them here, emailed the dj, no reply. Must. write. them down. Longshot, but that's all I have to go on. :/
posted by yoga on Feb 9, 2006 - 23 answers

How can I calculate the ambient (natural) light level for a particular location and time? [more inside]
posted by orthogonality on Nov 22, 2005 - 9 answers

I need to buy one or two microphones. [more inside]
posted by louigi on Oct 7, 2005 - 11 answers

Need suggestions for "moody" and "provocative" audio/sources for said audio to play in between songs during a live performance. [more inside]
posted by basicchannel on Aug 4, 2005 - 10 answers

Ambient dvds? So far I've found these. Other recommendations appreciated - I'm new to the concept. [more inside]
posted by yoga on Dec 11, 2004 - 9 answers