I came to a curious realization late last night, as I paused my reading of Neil Stephenson’s Anathem to look for accompanying music on my iTunes.   I tried a little of Montreal, for starters, but that was distracting.  Then I tried Sweet Billy Pilgrims’s Twice Born Men, but that, too, didn’t work.  So I started browsing, and it suddenly dawned on me that I have a hell of a lot of ambient/drone music.  I have over 10 GB of ambient/drone/phonographic works by people like Jacob Kirkegaard and Bill Fontana and William Basinski and Stars of the Lid and Brian Eno and Godspeed You Black Emperor! and on and on. Continue Reading »