Personally I find them to be a bit of both, as per that aforementioned liberating experience. From guttural, deep and quiet vocals just a bit offkey, to muffled horror sounds, there are elements some find disturbing and others find calming.

But there is always sensuality in this music, for in its ghostly state it feels so very and truly alive.ĭark ambient music is about the experience of feeling while listening. One could argue it is a spiritiual experience for through endurance we grow stronger.Įndurance is another big theme in dark ambient music: the notes and beats and frequently repeated, suggesting endurance in both the repetitive, machinelike motion and pain evident in the vocals. Generally speaking, that’s a very important theme to appreciate about dark music: that shared experience between creator and listener, the cause and effect of having put that emotional work into the music and then effecting the same responses in the listener. And in facing this fear through listening to the music – through bearing that exact experience – one comes out the other side feeling rather liberated, risen, freed. The kind of music that plays while you get a massage: music that calms you, relaxes the breathing and frees the mind.ĭark ambient is the atmosphere of a lonely nightmare, soft violence, utter fear. Ambient music is soothing, with few instruments, and sounds with large gaps in between.

There can seem to be no beginning nor an end there is not a climax. We have gathered for you creators of the perfect visionary soundscapes to accompany you on this journey.įor that is what dark ambient is all about: the journey. Lurking in the trees, stalking the rows of the cemetery, the hunger of a humid night under a full moon in June. Your nostrils tingle with the scent of misty roses in the hour of the gloaming.

How to create dark ambient music