Snowflakes & Dog Whistles: Best Electroacoustic Ambient & Sexpanic, 1995-2017

The following text was written for a double-CD released on December 1, 2024, that compiles various electroacoustic ambient tracks produced between 1995 and 2017. With the current wave of younger listeners of ambient music in mind, I decided to approach this text as a basic introduction to the underlying topics, ideas, contexts and histories behind electroacoustic ambient – both as a genre in the broader sense, and in specific relation to my own work. For those of you who have followed my work over the years, a few passages might read overly familiar – if not outright redundant. But then again, it is a “best of” compilation, so the same could be said of the tracks themselves. While the text does introduce several new thoughts and tidbits, perhaps it should also be considered a “best of” collection of topics.