During the coronavirus pandemic in May 2020, guitarist Robert Fripp started releasing individual soundscapes entitled Music for Quiet Moments on YouTube, Spotify, and other streaming platforms.

They were published once a week (52 in total) and each created a space for reflection, offering a means of pausing from the day-to-day concerns and to provide a point of calm and perhaps, a sense of hope, in such troubled times.

By way of introduction, Fripp defined what he meant by the term, quiet moment: Quiet moments are when we put time aside to be quiet. Sometimes quiet moments find us. Quiet may be experienced with sound, and also through sound; in a place we hold to be sacred, or maybe on a crowded subway train hurtling towards Piccadilly or Times Square. Quiet Moments of my musical life, expressed in Soundscapes, are deeply personal; yet utterly impersonal: they address the concerns we share within our common humanity.

I’ve put all 52 soundscapes together in a playlist on Spotify, click here.