This book aims to unravel the mysteries behind Dark Ambient Aesthetics through both a personal journey as a composer and in review of the dark turn in which we currently reside. Join the author on a journey through the creative processes he uses to compose dark ambient soundscapes whilst paying tribute to many other great artists within the meta genre. Does the music reflect our current meta modern condition? Are we experiencing a great change? Join the author in discovering the inner and outer works of the dark through sound, words and art.

Dark Ambient is neither a style nor a genre of popular music but an overall aesthetic. A dark aesthetic. It proposes a darkening and perhaps sometimes a blackening to the sounds more commonly accepted by mainstream culture as ambient, aka Brian ENO. Dark ambient has a sound colour akin to the darker spectrums of audacity, black, cosmic purple, blood red and earth brown. These colours though favouring the visual act are as a metaphor for their sound equivalents. As we probe for further truths in our reality we see the circumference of darkness in all its infinite glory, the outer cosmos and dark mater, the endless stream of nothingness.