Minimalist Music

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Reflexions

minimalist ambient piano and synth

Somewhen Ending Muzak

Pink Noise Recovery Motel

Recovery at a Motel 6 in Maryland after a traumatic event. Without my computer and VCV Rack, I turn to an old iPad to explore noise making—both as a catharsis and as an audio diary entry of sorts. My memory feels worse than ever as I struggle to even remember what day it is. Part of this is due to complex chronic illness. But at this moment, the more likely culprit is acute stress due to recent traumatic events. This album includes three basic (filtered) pink noise walls intended for sleep, meditation, recovery, or just to help block out overwhelming worries and thoughts. ɨ - brown-pink noise ɨɨ - pink-white noise ɨɨɨ - pink noise The album cover is a picture I took from the motel room overlooking the courtyard. Dedicated to all of those who have donated to mine and Saint Elisabeth’s cause & all of the amazing artists who created a track for the fundraiser compilation at ECHØVEIL RECORDS: echoveil-records.bandcamp.com/album/canticles-for-the-blacksmith-saints-2 No matter how difficult things are now, they would only be far worse without your help and support. You literally provided us the aforementioned motel to recover in. We cannot imagine where we would be without you. And we both cannot express how immensely grateful we are for everything you’ve provided us. Thank you. The least I can do is try to bring you new sounds every so often through all of this. I’m not exaggerating when I say that you are saving our lives. I owe each of you my best effort to remain here on this earth. And I’m sending each and every one of you all of my love—always. -Séraphitüs-Séraphîta

While We Dreamed

in the hours without a name distant notes return from somewhere beyond remembering light moving past leaves of some other season the sound of a voice almost yours there and gone as time dissolves days loosen their grip years scatter like wings fluttering into evening skies and yet still something of you remains a breath a turn of the head a familiar laugh crossing over this silence the way clarity at last does not answer but opens into landscapes all along and always waiting while we dreamed Phillip Wilkerson June 6, 2026

UnDance Connexion #1

Ambient Spaces 5

"Ambient Spaces 5" collects previously released tracks into a continuous listening experience. The tracks are arranged to be played from beginning to end, as a single immersive mix. If you’d like to step into a visual version of this environment, you can enter the room here: https://youtu.be/uBAjXXNtJx8 Each track is also available on its original Bandcamp release. Click the link for each track to see more details.

Fantasy Piano Variations

******* Fantasy Piano Variations Short pieces of Piano & Violin with subtle synths layers recorded for indie video games. Minimalist. I will add more gradually. Released May 8, 2025 Composer: Solar Phasing Produced by Woodoo Prod [Sounds From Earth] *******

Things Fall Apart

A collection of sound explorations from the leader of Rivulets.

Suspension

Three new droning permutations from Michael Baum, suspended somewhere between gravity and evaporation. Heavy, yet untethered. Minimal, yet saturated to the point of quiet collapse. Layers of tone accumulate like slow sediment, forming vast harmonic architectures that seem to breathe on their own. Intervals stretch, fold, and shimmer with a strange, magnetic logic. You don’t listen so much as drift. There is a sense of losing orientation here, like being carried out to sea with no shoreline left to remember. The infinite swell, the patient undertow. Above, below, it no longer matters. The sky dissolves into the same endless continuum. The world reduces itself to tone and interval. Everything else recedes. Suspension. -Sir Kuliktavikt

218'12 in 4 movements

This 3½-hour track, originally recorded in 2011, came about by happy accident. It was my first experiment with the Paulstretch program after seeing the then-popular trend of slowing songs down by 800%. I chose to process Merzbow’s Tint 1, not realizing it would ultimately stretch into something this long. As I began listening more deeply to the result, I decided to divide the piece into four movements, gradually shaping it with subtle additional layers and gently sweeping the volume in and out. The title is a direct nod to John Cage’s iconic 4′33″. At the time, I was listening heavily to Cage, as well as Bernhard Günter, Christopher DeLaurenti—particularly his Perforate Silence album—and other isolationist and minimalist composers. I hope you’ll take the time to listen deeply, as my friend Eric Wood says. Enjoy the experience, and appreciate the light textures.

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Reveries

4-track album released September 19, 2018 Phillip Wilkerson: Access Virus Digital Synth Andrew J Klimek: Mastering Tagir Mohandis: Artwork Recorded: May 2018 Sugarberry Studio Mims, FL

Sojourner

6-track album Composed and created by Phillip Wilkerson using Yamaha XS6, Virus Access and Polar synthesizers Mastered by Robert Rich at Soundscape - www.robertrich.com Cover photo © Flemming Bo Jensen - www.flemmingbojensen.com Additional photography © Damon Pla - www.damonpla.com All photography licensed or used by permission. I composed Sojourner with the focused intention of specifically offering listeners a collection of imaginative and meditative quests that, hopefully, will take you to the deep listening and being zone within your listening space. And with every subsequent listen, perhaps even achieving a different experience by allowing the musical odyssey itself to be your destination. Additionally, Sojourner explores new levels of emotional intensity and tension without dipping into Dark Ambient. So while the music here explores a richer emotional intensity, I hope it still conveys the positive spiritual undercurrents and musical signature of my previous Light Ambient efforts. Finally, I added the self-directive: "Go as slow as you can go." My intention with the patient blooming of these tracks is to explore the musical character, nuance, expression, and emotion that unfold as the music is held to a slower pace — such as a breathing pace or the pace of waves washing onto a seashore. Sojourner is about ambient music that is focused, emotionally warm, and visceral, yet evenly paced for highly concentrated and deeply contemplative aural journeys. ~ PW - July 2013

Silver Afternoon

13-track album LOW VOLUME LISTENING RECOMMENDED Initially, I playfully considered naming this release "Experiments with the Correlation Meter," but decided "Silver Afternoon" was more poetic. And besides, points to the inspiration — a lyric from a Mazzy Star song I was listening to when I captured the cover image. Technically speaking, though, this might be the best release I've ever engineered on my own. At least as far as designing the sound and recording it so it actually sounds the way I hear it when you hear it. Thanks are due to Jourdan Laik, who, this past summer, very patiently sat down with me on Zoom. He showed me a couple of invaluable tips and tricks in Logic Pro X that, frankly, have given me a whole new desire to make more music. So this release is dedicated to Jourdan. If you'd like to thank anyone for this release, or for that matter, for my continued interest in releasing music, please thank him by supporting his music on Bandcamp. https://jourdanlaik.bandcamp.com/ Phil Wilkerson October 2022 Digital synths: Phillip Wilkerson Digital artwork: Tagir Mohandis Recorded August - September 2022 at Studio East, Barboursville, VA.

Paz Infinita

12-track album released May 5, 2023 Phillip Wilkerson: Music and digital synthesizers. Previously released on Bandcamp: - The Vertigo of Between - Stories from Stones - Mirrors Without Memories Remixed and mastered for digital distribution: April 2023. Photograph courtesy of pexels-2286921 at Pixabay pixabay.com/users/pexels-2286921/ Available at digital stores and streaming sites: https://linktr.ee/philwilkerson

kieta ne

2-track album released September 6, 2025 Phillip Wilkerson - Synths, artwork, short story. Tagir Mohandis - Graphic Design Available at digital stores and streaming sites: linktr.ee/philwilkerson

Consolation

2-track album “I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hidden riches of secret places.” — Isaiah 45:3 released August 30, 2025 Phillip Wilkerson - Native Instruments VSTs, Eventide effects. Graphic Design: Tagir Mohandis Available at digital stores and streaming sites: linktr.ee/philwilkerson

Just Mountains

11-track album At first, I saw mountains as mountains. Later, I saw mountains were not mountains. Now, I see mountains as just mountains. released December 6, 2024 Synths & VSTs - Phillip Wilkerson Artwork - Tagir Mohandis Also available on digital streaming services - https://linktr.ee/philwilkerson