hi, i'm opening an alternative therapies workplace, and i thought instead of usig ambient music albums, or nature sounds, etc, using Pd for background for my activities. But im not interested and i think in the end im not capable of learning how to program it, so I'm looking for already made patches of pretty complete background music, as something that can play for an hour without sounding like a windchimes robot, for use while i'm doing the thing. Is there any precedent for this? Like a "grab anything from THAT place and use it at wll"? Or should i ask speccific programmers of Pd patches that i like if can i use them? in that case, how can i find the major publishing place of patches, and which is the best way to test them? thx
BTW also would be interested in motion graphics patches... everything ambient (chill, relax, weditative, as you call it).

Hi, I think you can have a look on some of these patches here (I am not sure if something here will suit your needs): http://puredata.info/downloads/by-category/standalone

You can also try to contact some composers directly, as you proposed. Try having a look in our own forum: http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/category/2/patch

If you want to give programming a try and get your hands a bit dirty, try working with the mtl abstractions, which has some very atmospheric objects and is supposed to be easy to use: http://puredata.info/Members/mtl

And last but not least, I found this interesting patch of ambient music for pd, maybe you would like to contact the author: http://olidunham.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/ambient-pd-composition/

Good luck,
Gilberto

my favorite meditating patch:
http://pdpatchrepo.info/patches/patch/3

Fantastic, I didn't know we had a patch repository! Thanks EEight!