Editing Ambient music (section)

===New-age music===
{{main|New age music}}
Ambient music fused with new-age music styles has an explicit purpose of aiding [[meditation music|meditation]] and relaxation, or aiding and enabling various alternative [[spiritual practice]]s, such as [[alternative healing]], yoga practice, [[guided meditation]], or [[chakra]] auditing.<ref>{{citation |title=New Age Music Genre Overview |publisher=[[allmusic]]|url=https://www.allmusic.com/genre/new-age-ma0000002745 |access-date=February 9, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Ambient Music Style Overview |publisher=[[allmusic]]|url=https://www.allmusic.com/style/ambient-ma0000002424 |access-date=February 9, 2025}}</ref> The proponents of new age-ambient music are almost always musicians who create their music expressly for these purposes.<ref name="NAV">Steven Halpern, ''New Age Voice Magazine'', June 1999 issue</ref> To be useful for meditation, the music must have repetitive dynamic and [[texture (music)|texture]] without sudden loud [[Chord (music)|chords]] or improvisation, which could disturb the meditator. It is [[minimalist]] in conception, and musicians in the genre are mostly instrumentalists rather than vocalists.<ref>{{citation |first=Stephen A. |last=Marini |title=Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture |year=2003 |location=Urbana and Chicago|publisher=University of Illinois Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ALHGyUwKuogC |isbn=9780252028007}}</ref> 

[[Subliminal message]]s are also used in new-age music, and the use of instruments along with sounds of animals (like whales, wolves and eagles) and nature (waterfalls, ocean waves, rain) is also popular. Flautist [[Dean Evenson]] was one of the first musicians to combine peaceful music with the sounds of nature, launching a genre that became popular for massage and yoga.<ref>{{citation |first=John P. |last=Newport |title=The New Age Movement and the Biblical Worldview: Conflict and Dialogue |year=1998 |publisher=William B. Eerdmans Publishing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rxss1cqHWYIC |isbn=9780802844309}}</ref>