The album features four ambient music tracks, each based on one of the four seasons, combining various field recordings with sounds from a Moog synthesizer.

The two decided on an album with four long tracks, each loosely based on one of the four seasons, partly constructed with improvised and composed passages.

[1] Various field recordings of nature are incorporated into the pieces, including wind on "Fall", bird song on "Spring", and insects on "Summer".

Initially, Carlos wished for Columbia Records to release the album in the Compatible Discrete 4 quadrophonic sound system, but the label refused to do so.

East Side Digital reissued Sonic Seasonings in 1998 as a remastered two-CD set, containing the original album, one out-take track, and two previously unreleased compositions.