Drone music

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I find that drone/ambient music such as Northaunt, Tim Hecker, Biosphere, Stars Of The Lid, ect has been really great in helping me channel my thoughts. I've been short on my ADHD pills and listening to it has been a decent stand in the past week.

One thing I like is that, in my experience, it is the opposite of sensory overload. A single sustained tone or cluster of tones, maybe a few field recordings, calm instrumentals, synths. It's an overall hypnotic experience that I've come to enjoy a lot.

Have any of you had any experience with drone music yet?

I used to listen to Indian classical music a lot. Different genre, but there is always a steady drone under everything. It was a pleasant and interesting change from all the chord-changes you get in most other genres. It puts me in a calm, focused state where I'll quite happily listen to a singer do an hour-long improvisation- an hour-long free jazz improv would make me restive, to put it mildly. (Khyal singers spend more time in very slow speeds than sitarists do- less flashy, whch may be why it hasn't caught on in the West as much.) When I've seen it live, it's also fascinating to watch the tanpura players who provide the drone. They pluck the tanpura strings in a pattern that's designed to make the drone sound best- it's completely unrelated to all the other rhythms going on!

I'll have to check out some of the drone artists you mentioned. Ambient in general is something I'd like to know more about.

YES!

I listen to a lot of ambient/space music and similar electronic music. Trance music is also great.

Robert Rich does excellent work. As does vidnaObmana. But the mother lode would be Stever Roach--I find that he has a lot of great music and that anyone he has collaborated with is also very good.

My bride and I attended Summer Solstice Spacemusic Spectacular and enjoyed it immensely. Well she was immensely okay with it. I was previously unfamiliar with Jeff Pearce but enjoyed his performance enough that I've bought some CDs. I already had some Robert Rich music and, as expected, really enjoyed his performance (and I learned his last name is pronounced /reesh/). But Steve Roach's performance stood out--it was AWESOME! !

I like the Sunn O))) album Black One.