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The 1970s were all about sex, drugs and rock and roll; Beat welcomes you to our Disco Inferno.

👁 Music for Non-Human Listeners
Who are you composing for? Most music is created with a human audience in mind. But what happens when we design music not for people—but for entities beyond the human?
By Yokai Circle6 months ago in Beat
🕳 Liminal Architecture: Designing Ambient Music for Haunted Spaces
Some music exists inside a room. Other music is the room. At Yokai Circle, we don’t just design sound—we design space. Or more accurately, we design for spaces that might not even exist.
By Yokai Circle6 months ago in Beat
🕯 Shadow Listening: Why the Music You Love Might Be About the Parts You Hide
Some songs feel too intense to explain. Not because they’re loud, but because they hit something inside you you weren’t ready to look at.
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
🌀 Time Doesn’t Exist in Music — And That’s the Point
Ever hear a loop that makes you feel stuck in a memory? Or a track that seems to stretch time… until you forget where you are?
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
🗝 The Language Before Words: Music That Feels Like Remembering
There are songs that feel like memories — but they aren’t yours. There are sounds that make you feel like you’ve just remembered something…
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
🪞Hauntology and the Echoes of Forgotten Futures . AI-Generated.
In the fog-drenched halls of dark ambient music, there's a particular kind of ghost that lingers—not just specters of the past, but hauntings from futures we imagined and lost.
By Yokai Circle6 months ago in Beat
🪞Music as Mirror: How Sound Reflects What We Can’t Say . AI-Generated.
Some emotions are too complex for words. Grief that slips between sadness and numbness. Joy that feels almost painful. A sense of longing for something you can’t name.
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
🚪 Between Worlds: Liminality and Threshold Emotion in Dark Ambient . AI-Generated.
There’s a moment before the dream begins. There’s a breath between the inhale and the exhale. There’s a hallway, a mist, a doorway not yet stepped through.
By Yokai Circle6 months ago in Beat
✨ Music as a Portal: Escaping Reality Through Sound . AI-Generated.
We all have moments where reality feels too loud, too heavy, or just… off. And in those moments, music becomes more than sound—it becomes a portal.
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
A Rainbow In Curved Air
Introduction I stole the title from the Terry Riley minimalist piece, but this was kicked off because I saw a post by the band's original violinist, Darryl Way, in a Progressive Music group that I am a member of here:
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 6 months ago in Beat
🗺️ Sound as a Place: How Music Becomes Emotional Geography . AI-Generated.
Close your eyes. Think of the last song that truly moved you. Now think: Where did it take you? Not just emotionally—but physically, spatially. Did it drop you into a rainy city at midnight? A sunlit rooftop in summer? An empty bedroom at 2AM? Did it make you feel like you were somewhere else entirely—maybe even a place that doesn’t exist?
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
From Songs To Symphonies
Introduction This is a Seven Days In excavation from 31st January 2020 about how musicians expanded their musical pieces from three-minute songs to twenty-minute opuses and further. I will expand this piece as well because I know there are other pieces that are relevant.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 6 months ago in Beat