Links and resources

Resources

Resources for the ambient inclined.

The Lifted Index: Great guitar music, pedal wrangler, synthesiser player, and ambient practitioner. A kind person who gently encourages many in the experimental and ambient music community.
Chris Lowis: Computer man, musician, and also works on jam.coop, a place to buy and sell music.
Andō: Find Andō's music on a quiet garden. One of the people that gave me positive feedback on places like Instagram early on when I started sharing music on social media, and helped me feel welcome in that world.
Stray Wool: Friendly musician and photographer interested in field recordings, tape loops, sampling, hacking, and all kinds of photographic processes.

Ambient and related record labels.

12k: Taylor Deupree's experimental label
Dauw: Ambient tape label
Folded Note: Textures
Home Normal: Ian Hawgood's ambient label
Kranky: "explorative ambient music"
Quiet Details: A label where each artist interprets the term "quiet details"
Past Inside the Present: … "in pursuit of the world's most inventive and engaging quiet music"
Seil Records: Optimistic ambient
Whitelabrecs: Glåsbird/Harry Towell's label

Places to find novel and interesting instruments and tools.

Signal Sounds: Great for modular gear, has blog posts, and active social media posts to help you learn/discover.
Elevator Sound: Often has stock of sold out gear, a place I'd love to visit frequently if I didn't live far away.

Things about artists and musicians.

The Lanner Chronicle: "An Aphex Twin Resource," but…: there's actually a lot of Aphex Twin interviews given in Japanese. They're translated and on this website, along with lots of other interviews and resources. There's more Aphex info than I ever thought existed, which helps when collecting his music.

Artists and generative art resources.

Paul Bourke: Fractals, Chaos, Self-Similarity: Excellent resources about fractals. I love the Bedouin Fractal rendering.