Let's suppose that the idea of music can be expanded to embrace the whole range of material things; including all tools and writing in addition to the useless, beautiful, and poetic things of the world. By this view the universe of material things simply coincides with the making of music. It then becomes an urgent requirement to devise better ways of considering everything that exists. Arising from the New York-based musical laboratory of Terre Thaemlitz, this record presents a radical new approach to the problem of musical change. Thaemlitz draws upon new insights derived from electronic synthesis and replaces the notion of style with the idea of a linked succession of works distributed in time as recognizably early and late versions of the same action. The result is a view of ambient progression aligned on the continuous change more than upon the static concept of style - the usual basis for conventional views of art. Tranquilizer is a carefully seasoned and brilliantly suggestive work in defense of the outlook that the creation of ambient music can be the study of formal relationships, as against the attitude that it should solely concentrate on ideas of symbols and iconography. This is a most important achievement, one that should be enjoyed for years in many different situations and at the same time, calms people and makes them reformulate.