Nous Alpha

Nous Alpha

Interactive Ambient

Ambient duo at the threshold of listening.

Nous Alpha is the ambient duo of Christopher Bono and Gareth Jones. Their catalog — Without Falsehood (2018) and A Walk in the Woods (2021) — develops a practice in which environmental listening and emotional restraint are the primary compositional materials. Long-form structures, minimal harmonic movement, and the space between sounds as active content. Nous Alpha's work also provides the sonic foundation of the Warmheartedness installation: a 26-piece quadrophonic surround work that premiered at a Mind & Life Institute dialogue event in 2022, placing Nous Alpha recordings alongside Dalai Lama archive material in a surround listening environment.

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