On the flowing stream of artistic expression, creative prayer evolves like a DNA helix, like feeling forward, surfing the crest of a wave completely abandoned to the will of the sea, treading barefoot the spine of the spiritual earth, a trail where the conscious awareness that there is an underlay to it obscures the confusion of any illusion, that the words used to describe its destination are actually the substance of its vertebrae which we can feel, thanks to the spirited nature of another part of ourselves which is honest, focused, daring, hungry for the spiritual feast of God's breast ...
Originally, ambient works draw [or derive ] from the old Ambient school (Brian Eno, etc) and branches in all kinds of variations, including the use of soundtracks and free-form collages, environmental recordings, famous speeches by famous people, floating chords, subtle rhythms and percussions. Everything is in the treatment of the sound, using effects, reverbs, flanges, time-stretching, pitch-shifting, the "drama" evolving so slowly, you almost feel like time is being pulled back to a grinding halt. Almost. Our whole being tittering on the threshold of the present moment... what an experience!
There are many ways to be creative within the Ambient genre, and this site would like to be a hub attracting artists who create life-giving, thought-provoking, meditative, ministering music which explores the human journey, the path of Christianity, as well pre-verbal or unspoken prayers. Works can spring from any of the fivefold ministry. Through all, of course, the goal is edification, exhortation and comfort in an inspiring way. One thing we'd like to see happen is that we'd ULTIMATELY revisiting the environmental ambience of the manifest presence of God in private and social settings.
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