A professor at Trinity College in Connecticut has written what is essentially a MIDI player for the human brain, converting MRI imagery into a sort of bleeping, blooping ambient music. Here’s how it ...

Host Scott Detrow talks with Pitchfork editor Andy Cush about ambient music and the growth in popularity of marketing it as so-called mood music on streaming platforms. And finally today, to create a ...

Huerco S.’ second album under his atmospheric alter ego is eerie and unsettling: Rhythms are frayed, harmonies are buried, and the usual reassurances of ambient music no longer apply. Save this story ...