Despite the way things are, music was not meant to be the background to chores. The art form evolved as a way of communication that demanded attention and absorption from the listener. In no genre of the art is this more prevalent than in ambient music. The quirkily named Mystery of the Bluebon by Anand Iyer under the moniker Opsyllate offers a meditative escape from the heavy percussive rhythms into something more reflective.

A student of the Berklee College of Music, Iyer picked up the guitar in college. “I was into hardcore thrash metal,” says the composer who was guitarist for several bands. But slowly the drive to find something different drew him to the perspective of exploring ambient sounds. “My work as a music producer requires me to constantly listen to all kinds of music. The genre of psychill and ambient music just felt calming. After all, you cannot listen to thrash metal for hours on end,” he says. It was in college that he also discovered the genre of psychill. “I started listening to composers and producers like Simon Posford,” the composer recalls.