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Welcome to ZEN MUSIC... the space between the noise!

Music that is Good for the Heart, the Mind, the Spirit

Home of Transcendental Soundscapes & Cool, Smooth Jazz!

Music designed for relaxation and total absorption... quiet music for discerning minds!

Our relaxing ZEN MUSIC is streamed worldwide into international hotel and spa resorts, cafe's and restaurants, and used by many Yoga and Meditation Teachers, Yoga Therapists, Massage Therapists, Reiki and other health practitioners globally.

ZEN MUSIC is the home to independent music and sound artist, Peter Morley (aka Sri Shanthi Bhavana) - composer and designer of Transcendental Soundscape music. The music works on this site are experimental in nature. They are free-form creative expressions of music and sound art.

Our ZEN MUSIC cool, smooth Jazz is designed to chill, de-stress and entertain with its laid-back, relaxing rhythms, beats and seductive jazzy ambience. The Ambient Cafe' Series and other ambient Jazz albums feature regularly on global Internet Smooth Jazz radio.

At ZEN MUSIC the aim is to link the listener with music and sounds that transport them to another place... to go beyond the everyday noise and busy mind - to a place of peace, serenity and harmony. These transcendent soundscapes are designed for stress-management: relaxation, yoga, meditation, self-contemplation, and many other forms of the healing arts, and joyful listening. I hope you enjoy!

The bottom line for all my music, is... minimalist... music that has a relaxing, simple yet mesmeric structure, with lots of space between the notes... space to chill and relax and give our brain a rest... what I like to call “the Space Between the Noise!”

Peter Morley (Sri Shanthi Bhavana) - Music Composer & Producer, Zen Music

My Personal Approach to Music Creation

In my music creation works I am seeking to escape the stereotypical confines of so-called 'mainstream' commercial music. These works were created through artistic experimentation - it is the serious aim of this composer to elevate the present status-quo of 'social music' to a more avant-garde status, where music becomes an active ingredient in both the thinking, and non-thinking process of cognition.

- Peter Morley (Sri Shanthi Bhavana)

What is ZEN MUSIC?

Minimalism: a Zen principle

“I provide the framework – the basic minimal structure – leaving plenty of open spaces for the listener to provide their story. What the listener brings to the process, is what manifests for them, personally – that’s Zen”.

Zen Music is about finding an emotional relationship with resonance – in the Body, in the Mind, and within the Universe – a universal ambience, or personal resonance with all of the cosmic elements... what I like to call ‘synergence’.

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“I have to tell you, it is so amazing what you have done. This music will be here on earth long after you are gone and provide joy and comfort and clarity for many generations of people to come. It was really beautiful to sit and listen to each one. I loved them all!” - Amy Wheeler, Ph.D. – C-IAYT / Yoga Therapist

— Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist & Educator – Founding Director, The Optimal State Yoga Therapy Teacher Training Program, and the Healing Yoga Institute, California, USA

In 2001, Peter Morley began experimenting with creating music ‘soundscapes’, and formed Energi Music. His first album, “Celestial” in that year was the result of experimenting with creating minimalist music. Over the next few years several more albums followed, including “Calm Light” and “Seascape” – both referred to as Meditational Journeys. The first 13 albums published on the Energi Music Label.

California-based Integrative Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Juliet Rohde-Brown joined the Energi Music label in 2007 and Peter Morley has composed music and produced four spoken word, guided visualisation meditation albums with Dr.Rohde-Brown.

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The ZEN Connection

Closing the Circle - Like TM (Transcendental Meditation), Zen Music's Transcendental Soundscapes provide a key sound, often a specific frequency, that resonates with a particular Chakra.

Like the Zen circle symbol, enzo, which is an incomplete circle, this frame holds the essence of my music vision – just a few notes floating in a sea of resonance, carefully measured to provide space (space between the notes, or in reference to our busy minds – between the noise). The Japanese word, Ma, means "negative space", "gap", "pause", or "the space between two structural parts".

This relates to all aspects of life – if we have no time, if our space is restricted, we are unable to grow. Zen Ma is in essence, what makes minimalism possible. It is in the quiet time in our busy lives, it is in the silence between the notes which make the music.

The Japanese Zen Masters call this 'mind-scape' – where every intricate detail is important, especially the intentional creation of space.

It is in this space that the discerning and perceptive listener discovers the rest of the music – they bring the ‘missing’ pieces to complete the circle, and thus experience the ‘whole’. And, as with all Zen art, the mystery lies in the fact that the art represents a different story or emotional journey for each individual – it provides exactly what the person requires at that point in time – and over time, this ‘message’ or meaning will change (evolve), as we do.

The more we sit with it and explore it, the more we will experience its mystery of subtle messages – constantly changing, evolving to meet us where we are – in any given moment.

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Zen Music... the Space Between the Noise!