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Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation.It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.
Smith recorded the album in 2013 using a Buchla Music Easel synthesizer after her mother, a yoga teacher, wanted music she could play during her classes. [1] It includes field recordings of "wind chimes, forest sounds, birds chirping, [and] steam valves". [2] The album will be the first release on Smith's new label, Touchtheplants. [2]
The album was reviewed by Stewart Mason for Allmusic who described it as "...not just a lifestyle curio, but a musically interesting lifestyle curio. Strip away the Age of Aquarius trappings (although the liner notes are good for an ironic giggle) and Music for Yoga Meditation and Other Joys is not dissimilar to what Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders would get up to over the next decade: long ...
Following the rise in online music retailing at the start of the 21st century, high-resolution audio downloads were introduced by HDtracks starting in 2008. [7] [8] Further attempts to market high-resolution audio on optical disc followed with Pure Audio Blu-ray in 2009, and High Fidelity Pure Audio in 2013. [9]
Buddhist music retains a prominent place in many Buddhist traditions, and is usually used for ceremonial and devotional purposes. [5] Buddhist music and chanting is often part of Buddhist rituals and festivals in which they may be seen as offerings to the Buddha. [6] Most Buddhist music includes chanting or singing, accompanied by instruments.
Music for Zen Meditation is a 1964 album by jazz clarinetist Tony Scott. [2] The album is considered to be the first new-age record. [3] Music for Zen Meditation is mostly improvised by Scott, Shinichi Yuize and Hōzan Yamamoto .
There are several exercises designed to develop mindfulness meditation, which may be aided by guided meditations "to get the hang of it". [9] [70] [note 3] As forms of self-observation and interoception, these methods increase awareness of the body, so they are usually beneficial to people with low self-awareness or low awareness of their bodies or emotional state.
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) designed MP3 as part of its MPEG-1, and later MPEG-2, standards.MPEG-1 Audio (MPEG-1 Part 3), which included MPEG-1 Audio Layer I, II, and III, was approved as a committee draft for an ISO/IEC standard in 1991, [14] [15] finalized in 1992, [16] and published in 1993 as ISO/IEC 11172-3:1993. [7]