The music of space - ambient and drone from inner and outer space.
So... Welcome
Beyond the worlds of libraries and tech, one of my biggest passions is ambient and space music. I wrote about technology and libraries for years and I'll continue doing that for years to come, I hope. Meanwhile, I've written almost nothing about music, let alone ambient and space. So I figured I'd stretch myself a bit and try it out, and maybe share my love with others who might be interested or who've never heard this music before.
I discovered ambient and space as a teenager. Oddly enough, I discovered it around the same time someone introduced me to the local National Public Radio station. See, there's this show called Hearts of Space that plays ambient, drone, and space music and they're typically found on NPR and college radio stations. The local NPR station must've found out that I really liked the show, because they stopped broadcasting it about a year later. But by then, it was too late. I was hooked.
To some, ambient music isn't even music, and that's fine. It is music, I assure you, but it's not everyone's thing in the same way that death metal isn't everyone's thing. Some people don't think gutteral singing and loud, dark guitars are music either. Music is what you believe it to be and if there's an advantage to being a fan of ambient drone, it's that there's music all around you.
You just have to listen.
In almost every corner of the net I'm either the Cyberpunk Librarian or Bibrarian, but neither of those handles make any sense here. I'm not talking cyberpunk, and there's no mention of sexuality. But there is a bit of a librarian thing going on here as I collect this music, gathering it and, if not cataloguing it like a good librarian should, I might be able to help you locate your next tune. Ambient, drone, and space exists somewhere between the plains of the worlds of the waking and the dreaming and I happily walk among, and between, both of them. So welcome, traveler, to Utopia Ambientium. I'm your Somnabulibrarian. Sit back, close your eyes, and listen.




