30/09/2026
Why is everybody listening to ambient music these days? Beatless music, or music with almost inaudible percussion or beats, seems to be one of the quiet successes of contemporary music culture.
Ambient music finds audiences across differences of age, gender, race and ability. It is frequently associated with soothing, healing and contemplative qualities, but it also oozes into all sorts of other genres, styles and artistic movements. It affords a variety modes of listening and it is made, performed, mediated and circulated in
heterogeneous social contexts, local traditions and scenes. It organizes relations between sound, space, bodies and attention, producing affects that may be soothing or unsettling, immersive or distancing, intimate or political.
DEADLINE ➔ ABSTRACT
Monday, December 7, 2026
EDITORS OF SPECIAL ISSUE
Ulrik Schmidt, Roskilde University
Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen
Piotr Kędziora, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań
Lílian Campesato, University of Copenhagen
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