There are many examples of how new age music can be an uplifting and interesting part of a lobby or any other room in a building. The most widespread use is perhaps in spas, where our genre really shines; a spa without new age music is like a swimming pool without water.

Other examples are in-flight programs on airplanes, waiting rooms, retirement homes and restaurants. New age music adds a certain mystique, and in the process creates an atmosphere that takes the interior design to a level that is beyond the visible.

Here I will quote some recent articles about interior design where you can see who new age music is highlighted as a central part of the experience.

We start with this article from New York Times about a retirement home:

Then I read about a special lounge for caregivers in an acute care hospital. It sounded like a wonderful place, thought out with great care by a middle-aged woman who had cared for her husband before his premature death. There were coffee, snacks, a social worker, jammed bookshelves, computers to pick up e-mail or do Google searches. The décor soothed like a spa. There were actually fountains of water running over pebbles. New Age music. I loved it.

And now this description of a relaxation retreat in the city of Landers in the high desert mountains above Palms Springs and Joshua Tree :

After the new-age music played for a few minutes, my friend sat-up. She slowly studied the dome around us, and then focused on the light coming in through the apex. She looked pleasantly dazed. I felt pleasantly dazed, too–a new experience for me. My entire body felt surprisingly and totally relaxed. If George Van Tassel’s aim was to create a rejuvenation environment, he might have succeeded. My batteries definitely felt re-charged.

How to describe new age music at a spa? Here is an example:

THE setting was immaculate: poolside at The Spa at Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, with deck chairs and guests in white, candles on every table and New Age music wafting through the speakers. It was then, with the view of the skyline of Kuala Lumpur as his backdrop, under the light of the full moon, that the true power of the singing bowls came to the fore.

But how do a new age music pattern look like, if you were to use it as a wall paper? According to a design page it will look like something like this:

The wine-red color makes a dramatic backdrop to the green and lightbrown rectangular shapes – like a rhythmic new age song, rich with emotions and expressions.

So yes, New Age Music can indeed be interior design just as much as it is music! When designing your ideal home, think like Enigma: “Open your heart and push the limits!”