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Space music, also spelled spacemusic, is a term that has been applied to music from a range of genres since its first recorded use in the 1950s.
In contemporary use "space music" is most often used to describe certain types of ambient, new age and electronic music, and is also sometimes also applied to selected works in the western classical, world, celtic, and experimental idioms.
[5][6][7][8] It generally refers to music that evokes a feeling of contemplative spaciousness. [9] [10] [11] [12]
Space music ranges from simple to complex sonic textures, often (though not exclusively) lacking conventional melodic, rhythmic, or vocal components,[3][13] typically evoking a "continuum of spatial imagery and emotion",[14] beneficial introspection, attentiveness for deep listening,[15][16] subtle trance effects called "spacey", and psychoacoustic spatial perceptions,[17] particularly, sensations of flying, floating, cruising, gliding, or hovering.[18][19]
Space music is often claimed to facilitate heightened states of relaxation, contemplation, inspiration, and moods of a peaceful expansive nature, ; it may promote health through relaxation, atmospherics for bodywork therapies, and effectiveness of meditation. [20] Space music appears in many film soundtracks and is commonly played in planetariums. [21]
Produced almost exclusively by independent labels, space music occupies a small niche in the commercial music marketplace, supported and enjoyed by a relatively small audience of loyal enthusiastic listeners.[22]