Carlos experimented with ambient music on her third studio album "Sonic Seasonings", released as a double album in 1972, with one side-long track dedicated to each of the four seasons. Recorded as early as 1970 and finished in mid-1971, before the "A Clockwork Orange" project was complete, Carlos wished to produce music that did not require "lengthy concentrated listening", but more than a collection of ambient noises to portray an environment. It combined field recordings of animals and nature with synthesized sounds, occasionally employing melodies, to create soundscapes. It reached No. 168 in the "Billboard" 200 and influenced other artists who went on to pursue the ambient and new-age genres in later years.