Minimalist Meditation
Minimalist music lends itself to meditation and reflection. Lose yourself in its simple cells of sound, pulsating rhythms, hypnotic melodic loops and repetitions, subtly shifting harmonies, and other-worldly timbres…
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Philip Glass sets the scene with ‘Opening’. With its layers of repeating cells and gentle harmonic transitions, this is music of beautiful, meditative simplicity.
Max Richter’s ‘Sleep’ was conceived around the neuroscience of sleep and repose and is “an attempt to see how that space when your conscious mind is on holiday can be a place for music to live”: listening while awake to this beguiling, ever-changing music conjures up dream states and “relaxed consciousness”.