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This site is dedicated to sharing soothing ambience, drones, and
environmental white noise soundscapes in the convenience of
hour-length MP3 downloads.
If you need relief for your insomnia or ambience to study to, or
whether you’re having trouble relaxing, concentrating, quelling your
tinnitus, or masking unwanted office or neighborhood noise, give these
soundscapes a listen. If you don't like 'em, e-mail me
for a full refund or
replacement.
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VICTORIA FALLS
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Turbine Hall
Duration: 66 minutes 48 seconds, Size: 91.7 MB.
Victoria Falls — the Seventh Wonder of the World; the largest
waterfall in the world.
_Victoria Falls_ is a natural source of “brown noise” (a
lower-pitched and less irritable form of “true” white noise) that
is ideal for sleep and masking unwanted background noises. It is a
powerful, thundering, and expansive recording that relaxes the
listener with a full-spectrum spacious sound, apt for masking both
rumbling and high-pitched distractions.
While Victoria Falls is neither the _highest_ nor the _widest_
waterfall in the world, it is claimed to be the _largest_. This claim
is based on the fact that it plunges 108 meters (360 feet) over a
width of 1,708 meters (5,600 feet) into a basalt lined gorge, forming
the largest sheet of falling water ever to be discovered by man (and
thus, the largest concentrated source of environmental brown noise).
In March and April of 2009, record rainfalls in the watershed created
an extra volume of water that had to be released over the falls around
April 12th. This recording and photo were taken at that time, from the
eastern cataract at the Zambian side.
Victoria Falls features no fade-in or fade-out at the beginning or the
end, so there are no distractions in sound volume when played on
repeat. No sounds of people, birds, animals or planes are included. No
music has been added.
Extensive testing conducted through many years of travel has led me to
conclude that Victoria Falls combined with the Sennheiser HD 380 PRO
at 85% iPad volume provides SEVEN TIMES (7x) the sound attenuation of
merely using foam and silicone earplugs alone. This MP3 is literally a
_bedroom_ for one’s ears. Get yourself a pair of over-the-ear
headphones with ample amounts of bass response, take a seat somewhere
in a boisterous coffee shop or relax in a hotel room with adjacent
noisy neighbours, and then play _Victoria Falls_. You will hear the
sound of _one hand clapping_.
Victoria Falls is a natural white noise soundscape composed of a
non-looped digital stereo quasi-binaural field recording. This
recording technique produces a 3-dimensional audio portrait when
listening with headphones. Encoded at a bitrate of 192 kbps for
quality listening.
Companion field recordings: Top of the Chasm
, Devil’s Pool
Soundmasking attributes of Victoria Falls
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPad
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
Shouting/yelling
Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
Godzilla
= inaudible = audible
This white noise MP3 sounds like: best for concentration
, best
for lucid dreaming
, best
for meditation
, best for
sleep , best
for sound masking
,
binaural , constant
, low-pitched
, medium-pitched
, monotonous
, natural
, no music
, no people
, spacious
, the sound of one
hand clapping
,
water , waterfall
.
RAIN ON THE RIVER
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Duration: 63 minutes 57 seconds, Size: 87.8 MB.
It was one of those mornings where the mist and wisps of fog had
twisted and risen in the valleys, lingering like the last river
spirits of the night, reluctant to admit that the break of dawn had
already arrived.
‘Twas in this befoggled morning dawn during a rainstorm that I
recorded _Rain on the River_, right on the bank of the Deerfield River
with my trusty pair of DPA 4060-BM omnidirectional condensor
microphones mounted onto my GUY HRTF baffle. My Sound Devices 722 and
Lunatec V2 mic preamp were both safe and sound in my watertight
Pelican 1500 case but while they were sitting there basking in their
warmth my 4060s had to take all the beating.
A cataract of constant plummeting rain falls throughout the recording,
forming a high exuberant counterpoint to the lower bass and sub-bass
of delicate rolling thunder rumbling across the tops of clouds above
the listener. The thunder has a low soothing growl rather than
startling claps or crashes or booms, so any progress you make towards
sleep or being one with the universe will not be thrown into abrupt
discomposure. Subtle, sparsely scattered bird calls can be heard in
the distance.
Swift multitudinous drops of rain continually plash and patter the
river’s smooth glassy levels, and they are heard making little
dimples and bells and spray in an ebullient melody of constantly
shifting crescendos. The ecstatic flow of buoyant streaming water from
the river has a more engaging, relaxing, random variation of natural
white noise when compared to electronically processed white noise or
white noise software. The duality of both low and high frequencies
facilitates listening as our ears tend to crave for one or the other
after prolonged singular exposure to either for an extended period of
time.
A tirelessly shifting array of liquid _awesome_ — this is the only
MP3 that takes you right to the heart of the storm without getting
your snugglebuns fried by lightning. No music, no voices, no planes,
no synthesizers, no bilk. No layering or looping effects were used in
any way to enhance the storm.
_Rain on the River_ is a natural soundscape composed of an hour-long
on-location digital stereo quasi-binaural field recording. This
recording technique produces a three-dimensional audio image when
listening with earphones or headphones. Click here to read more about
me and my recording techniques.
The full 63:57 MP3 has no fade-in or fade-out at the beginning or end,
so it can seamlessly be played looped without any distraction or
sudden change of tempo. Compatible with all CD players, iPods,
iPhones, and iPads. Bitrate encoded at 192 kbps for finest audio
reproduction.
Soundmasking attributes of Rain on the
River
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPod
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
Shouting/yelling
Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
Godzilla
= inaudible = audible
This white noise MP3 sounds like: best for concentration
, best
for lucid dreaming
, best
for meditation
, best for
sleep , best
for sound masking
,
binaural , chillax
, dripping
, high-pitched
, medium-pitched
, natural
, no music
, no people
, rain
, river
, spacious
, thunder
, water
.
AUTUMN WINDS
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Duration: 61 minutes 43 seconds, Size: 84.7 MB.
Autumn Winds is a unique, constantly undulating form of natural white
noise that is excellent for masking office noise and other
distractions. It is unique in that it is always changing and evolving
— never stagnant or static. This chill, laid back soundscape is an
ebb and flow of completely natural white noise of moderate intensity.
The trees are still adorned with leaves, in which their presence
modulates and colours the noise of the wind with rustling whispers.
These features are complemented by a velvety relaxing tempo that makes
this recording an ideal gadget for both sleep and study.
Autumn Winds is as ignorable as it is interesting — it does not
demand your attention, but rewards it.
Recorded in the northern Canadian taiga of coniferous forests in
September of 2007. There are no sounds of birds, animals, insects,
planes, cars, voices or music. This is a non-looped soundscape of pure
natural wind sounds (no synthesizers, no layering, no
post-processing). Completely seamless and includes no fade-in or
fade-out at the beginning or end.
Autumn Winds is a natural white noise soundscape digitally recorded
using stereo quasi-binaural Sonic Studios DSM-6S/EHs dimensional
microphones. Binaural baffle, omni-directional microphone technique.
Encoded at a bitrate of 192 kbps for quality listening.
The complete aural equivalent of watching clouds…
Soundmasking attributes of Autumn Winds
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPad
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
Shouting/yelling
Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
Godzilla
= inaudible = audible
This white noise MP3 sounds like: best for concentration
, best
for lucid dreaming
, best
for meditation
, best for
sleep , best
for sound masking
,
binaural , chillax
, high-pitched
, natural
, no music
, no people
, spacious
, wind
.
AIR CONDITIONER HUM
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Duration: 65 minutes 15 seconds, Size: 89.6 MB.
Ah, mankind’s greatest invention.
You love this sound. Love it like you love chocolate, a deep, personal
love that makes your bones feel good inside.
The soothing white noise hum of the air conditioner – a sound I’m
sure you’re familiar with – reminds you of those gentle summer
nights when you drifted off to sleep to this subtle drone of pure
auditory bliss.
The full-length MP3 contains absolutely zero voices, rumbling, thuds,
or ticks. No external distractions or abnormal frequencies are
included – just the simple soothing hum of the A/C for one full
hour.
There are only two kinds of people in this world, those who love air
conditioners…
…and those who love air conditioners but won’t admit it.
This white noise MP3 sounds like: air conditioner
, best for
colicky babies
, best
for concentration
, best
for lucid dreaming
, best
for sleep ,
constant , home
appliances ,
low-pitched ,
medium-pitched
, monotonous
, no music
, no people
, secluded
.
KICKING HORSE RAPIDS
Duration: 64 minutes 41 seconds, Size: 88.8 MB.
A field recording from my trip to the Rockies — descending swiftly
from the ice fields of the Rocky Mountains, the Kicking Horse River is
both a geological and acoustic wonder. It still follows the path it
chose before massive glaciers filled the space between these
mountains. When the great ice sheet finally disappeared, a broad
U-shaped valley was left in its wake and at its bottom, the Kicking
Horse River remained — a spectacular remnant of another age.
While exploring a Rocky Mountain river in 1858, surveyor-geologist
James Hector suffered a near-fatal kick by his packhorse. Hector
survived, and the river and a nearby mountain pass were named in
honour of the incident.
The recording location for this MP3 was rather catalytic — my hubby
and I were able to move the raft to a calmer area but while he was
sitting there oafing away I stranded myself up on a rock for an hour
in the middle of its unruly raging waters with my Sonic Studios
DSM-6S/M (in a WHB headband) and Edirol R-09.
White noise permeates this soundscape through the relaxing auditory
medium of constant streaming water. The overflow from the rapids eddy
around to the left and to the right as light spirited waves lap
against the rock’s perimeter. You can hear the rushing flow of water
from the main current shifting amongst the rocks, the harmonic splash
of spray, and volumes of water gushing over and around the rocks and
boulders all around me. The atmosphere is suffused by white milky mist
thrown up into the air by splash and spray everywhere.
Kicking Horse Rapids is a natural soothing source of “pink noise”
(a less harsh and less hissy form of “true” white noise) and
includes no distracting sounds of birds, planes, music, animals or
people. Digital stereo quasi-binaural field recording. Listen with
headphones to produce a 3-dimensional auditory experience. Link to
binaural recording techniques.
Soundmasking attributes of Kicking Horse
Rapids
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPad
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
Shouting/yelling
Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
Godzilla
= inaudible = audible
This white noise MP3 sounds like: best for colicky
babies
, best
for concentration
, best
for lucid dreaming
, best
for meditation
, best for
sleep , best
for sound masking
,
binaural , constant
, high-pitched
, monotonous
, natural
, no music
, no people
, river
, spacious
, water
, waterfall
.
SLEEPY JET CABIN
Duration: 64 minutes 27 seconds, Size: 88.5 MB.
I wish I owned this thing.
Alas, a sad and terrible realization:
One’s entire life could indeed fit inside a Dassault Falcon 900.
This white noise MP3 sounds like: air conditioner
, best for
colicky babies
, best
for concentration
, best
for lucid dreaming
, best
for sleep ,
constant , deep
, low-pitched
, monotonous
, no music
, no people
, room tones
, secluded
, space
, vehicular
.
EMPTY CONFERENCE ROOM
Duration: 64 minutes 47 seconds, Size: 88.9 MB.
Haiku:
_Vacant meeting room
Air conditioner rumbles
Wallow in the breeze_
Soundmasking attributes of Empty Conference
Room
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPad
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
Shouting/yelling
Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
= inaudible = audible
This white noise MP3 sounds like: air conditioner
, best for
colicky babies
, best
for concentration
, best
for lucid dreaming
, best
for sleep ,
best for sound masking
,
binaural , constant
, deep
, low-pitched
, medium-pitched
, monotonous
, no music
, no people
, room tones
, secluded
.
SLEEPY BEACH WAVES
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End of the Cavern
Duration: 65 minutes 37 seconds, Size: 90.1 MB.
I have never been more charmed by a country quite like Sri Lanka. As
ubiquitous as poverty is, right alongside the high infant mortality
rates, these people are albeit proud, educated, genuinely hospitable,
and sedulously spiritual.
For example, my guide Carlu had an advanced collegiate degree, could
speak several languages fluently, knew almost every single plant and
animal by both their Latin and common names including hilarious
scientific anecdotes, but most importantly he was remarkably at ease
and eager to discuss the meaning of life for hours on end during the
lazy evening hours.
Even though he was in his sixties, he was tireless. One morning he
forgot to arrange for my brunch to be packed up for the field, so
without comment we promptly stopped at a small communal village so
that he could buy me a meal (equivalent to several days’ worth of
wages). I irrevocably pried the truth out of him and he confessed that
he’d rather labor for days than to have me skip a brunch because he
was forgetful. I bussed him on the cheek and squeezed his testicles.
Carlu is just one of the many reasons that Arthur C. Clarke (author of
2001: A Space Odyssey, R.I.P March 19, 2008) lived here, which
introduces how I had come to visit Sri Lanka in the first place.
A good childhood friend of mine had just returned from Sri Lanka on a
business trip, and she suggested that I travel to the island country
to record some of the environment because the denizens are so
spiritually uplifting. Though despite the dense population, she
assured me that it was also a quiet place, relatively free of noise
pollution in the rural areas. The biosphere reserves are very well
respected and preserved which to my favor complemented generously my
existing library of environmental ambience and wildlife recordings.
She also suggested that I write to Sir Clarke, “You don’t need an
address for a BAMF like Arthur C. Clarke, just use Colombo, Sri Lanka,
and it’ll get to him.” Oy, could there really be such a place left
in this world? I wrote the correspondence letter that same day. Three
weeks later, I received a hand written letter in my mailbox from Mr.
Clarke graciously referring me to several scholars and experts on
nature and Carlu was one of them.
Carlu took me to the Kanneliya Forest, Hurulu Reserve, Horton Plains,
and Kalutara Beach, and all four places produced environmental
ambience recordings of sexcellent quality.
Sleepy Beach Waves takes place on the secluded Kalutara Beach, which
is a long, narrow strip of land of situated 38 kilometers south of Mr.
Clarke’s house and rests between the waters of the Laccadive Sea and
a wider inlet of water to the east.
The weather and tide conditions were nothing short of perfect that
evening — a crème de la crème of widely spaced waves sweeping
singularly and sensuously across the smooth, moist, shimmering sand.
The lush ebb and flow of waves — both distant and near — gently
caress the shore as they break and recede, leaving a light hissing
symphonic trail of sound as the surf ever so softly sizzles itself in.
There was no wind at all, which was pretty rare for an open beach —
so I removed the microphone windscreens to allow every creamy little
detail to be recorded. At the conclusion of this hour long field
recording session I snapped up this photo.
Relaxing beach ambience at its best – without the seagulls, without
the swimmers, without the sailors. No birds, no animals, no people, no
music. No looping or layering effects were used. This is one full hour
of pure, unadulterated, wholesome beach waves — both distant and
near — lapping against the sun-kissed sandy shores of the Kalutara
on a sleepy September sunset twilight.
This soundscape captures the most primal essence of stranded seaside
serenity and solitude in 360-degree binaural surround sound. Ah… so
peaceful here. Yet there’s fighting going on somewhere at this very
minute. Slip on a pair of stereo headphones and dare to cast yourself
away.
_Sleepy Beach Waves_ is a non-looped natural undulating “brown
noise” (a lower-pitched and less hissy form of “true” white
noise) soundscape composed of an hour-long on-location digital stereo
quasi-binaural field recording. This recording technique produces a
three-dimensional audio image when listening with earphones or
headphones. Bitrate encoded at 192 kbps for finest audio reproduction.
Soundmasking attributes of Sleepy Beach
Waves
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPad
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
Shouting/yelling
Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
= inaudible = audible
This white noise MP3 sounds like: best for colicky
babies
, best
for concentration
, best
for meditation
, best for
sleep , best
for sound masking
,
binaural , chillax
, low-pitched
, medium-pitched
, natural
, no music
, no people
, ocean
, secluded
, spacious
, water
.
END OF THE CAVERN
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Duration: 65 minutes 05 seconds, Size: 89.3 MB.
Far beyond the hectic concrete jungle of modern life there exists a
parallel reality, an undiscovered world where you can still see and
hear things in their purest and most innocent forms.
This field recording situated at the end of a cavern is as primal as
it gets. Listen and swathe yourself in melancholy as you experience a
private world perhaps as old as human consciousness itself where the
most primeval origin and essence of human personal security remains
preserved.
Chill out and relax to the low, slow, halcyon breaths of the Atlantic
as they resonate, naturally lulled and muffled, into the hollow
undulating tunnel walls of nature’s own reverberator — the deep
claustral interior of a secluded beachfront cavern I found off the
coast of Lydstep Beach.
The cavern is shaped like the human ear canal which collects sounds
naturally — the sound of the tide sweeping against the granite walls
of the cavern all amalgamate and bounce towards the center where my
mikes are carefully positioned.
A deep, smooth, dark ambient texture of prenatal, primordial
memories… where the only porn that existed in our time was no more
grandiose than horribly malproportioned phalluses on the walls of such
most humble abodes.
_End of the Cavern_ is a non-looped natural soundscape composed of an
hour-long digital stereo omnidirectional HRTF field recording. This
recording technique produces a three-dimensional audio image when
listening with earphones or headphones. Bitrate encoded at 192 kbps
for finest audio reproduction.
This white noise MP3 sounds like: best for meditation
, best for
sleep ,
binaural , cave
, chillax
, deep
, ethereal
, low-pitched
, natural
, no music
, no people
, ocean
, reverberant
, secluded
, space
, wind
.
EARLY WINTER WILDERNESS
Duration: 66 minutes 17 seconds, Size: 90.1 MB.
A cold early winter wilderness wind drifts through the trees as the
sun peeks over the horizon. Frost in the trunks and branches crunches
and pops as the trees flex.
Winter in the forest is a quiet time. Most of the birds have all but
migrated south and most of the animals are fast asleep in their winter
hibernation. Lakes, ponds, and small streams are frozen, and a thick
blanket of snowcover acts as a sound absorbent. As the days get
shorter and a little colder in early December, subtle changes occur in
the early morning forest soundscape. The winter birds become more
vocal.
In this recording, as the rising sun illuminates the tops of the
trees, nuthatches chant and hairy woodpeckers drill. Red squirrels
become more mobile after a crust forms on the deep snow. Their warning
chatter becomes more frequent as they stray into each other’s
territory. An occasional goldfinch sings. The wind chills.
This is a very quiet minimalist recording — you’ll notice that the
restless winter air leaves its own background noise imprint. The
beginning of the recording has quieter sections, whereas the second
half has more wind. Listening with headphones is recommended.
Early Winter Wilderness is for those who enjoy a minimalist soundscape
which has long stretches of low volume inactivity, and accurately
represents the activities of wind and animals at daybreak in early
winter. There is an audible hiss in the recording produced by the
recording equipment. It has been encoded at 192 kbps for better audio
quality.
Slip on your headphones, hop into your pajamas and cozy bedtime
booties, grab a sumptuous fair cup of hot sizzling cider, and
chugalug!
_bbbrrrrrrrrr…_
This white noise MP3 sounds like: best for meditation
, best for
sleep ,
binaural , birds
, chillax
, cold as heck
, medium-pitched
, natural
, no music
, no people
, spacious
, wind
.
CRYOSTASIS CHAMBER
Duration: 64 minutes 10 seconds, Size: 88.1 MB.
I had the pleasure of commissioning this sexy exciting soundscape for
a _huge_ client over the summer of 2005, though I won’t say who.
The goal was to sculpt a complex background ambience reminiscent of a
sci-fi-ish stasis or cryogenic chamber where the inert minds of its
subjects naturally retreat into a private world of infinite
tranquility, where the experience and concept of Time itself is
distorted ever so subtly.
Although there is not a single trace of conscious activity in the
brains of its sleepers, it appears as though the Experience itself
never ceases, creating atemporal bubbles of memories of transcendental
calm the moment the subject awakes.
It may be very well possible that the hypnoencephalic chemicals used
in the cryonic process alter the outer cortex of the brain in such a
way that is not yet exactly understood, however, scientists believe
that cryostatic hibernation is a perfectly safe means of interstellar
travel.
_Zzzzzzzzzzz…_
This white noise MP3 sounds like: best for sleep
, chillax
, ethereal
, low-pitched
, medium-pitched
, no music
, no people
, processed
, secluded
, space
, synth
.
DREAMSHOWER
Duration: 66 minutes 48 seconds, Size: 91.7 MB.
Dreamshower was recorded in the middle of the night at a narrow
passage in the mystical white crystalline La Cloche mountains. The
area has an “other world” feel and awareness. Dreamshower exudes a
particular ambience and unique vibration.
The recording encompasses the middle to upper audio spectrum with
variations caused by the water flows and splashes which creates a
mesmerizing rhythm that plays up and down in pitch.
This is a crisp clean rain recording enveloped by a depth and
spaciousness that slowly evolves and unfolds. The natural variability
makes it less fatiguing to listen to when compared to electronically
generated rain sounds. A natural source of “white noise” that is
ideal for masking ambient noise and office distractions — no
synthesizers, no layering, no looping and no post-processing.
Everyone is snuggled into their beds to stay dry, being gently lulled
to sleep. There is no thunder, no animal sounds to distract, and no
mechanical sounds — just the sounds of steady soft “female
rain”.
The perfect non-drug sleep aid to help you relax and fall asleep. Play
Dreamshower at bedtime and drift off to a peaceful and relaxing
slumber to alleviate insomnia and sleeplessness.
_“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it
rain.”_
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Soundmasking attributes of Dreamshower
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPad
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
Shouting/yelling
Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
= inaudible = audible
This white noise MP3 sounds like: best for concentration
, best
for meditation
, best for
sleep , best
for sound masking
,
binaural , chillax
, dripping
, high-pitched
, medium-pitched
, natural
, no music
, no people
, rain
, secluded
, spacious
, water
.
LAVATORY 3 AM
Duration: 62 minutes 59 seconds, Size: 86.5 MB.
Ever notice how the soothing ambience of the A/C hum in public
restrooms mitigates the pain of having gas, bloating and diarrhea?
And whenever I finally find an empty public restroom for a dump so
massive that it requires complete solitude for the deposit… someone
walks in.
Just as I’m about to ‘release the beast’, someone enters the
bathroom causing my sphincter to snap _shut!_
In this MP3 it’s just you and the constant, completely soothing hum
of the A/C and its resonance off the polished walls of an empty, dimly
lit washroom at 3 AM. No people, no plumbing noise, _no tomfoolery_.
Dump this MP3 onto your MP3 player and carry it along whenever
you’re having the trots.
_Lavatory 3 AM_ is a non-looped white noise soundscape composed of an
hour-long on-location digital stereo quasi-binaural field recording.
This recording technique produces a three-dimensional audio image when
listening with earphones or headphones. Bitrate encoded at 192 kbps
for finest audio reproduction.
This white noise MP3 sounds like: air conditioner
, best for
colicky babies
, best
for concentration
, best
for sleep ,
binaural , constant
, low-pitched
, medium-pitched
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DREAM FOREST
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Duration: 65 minutes 31 seconds, Size: 89.9 MB.
Dream Forest — perfect to use as a sleep aid or peaceful background
noise. I have recorded this area of Canada’s boreal forest more than
300 times and each time I visit this wonderful little amphitheater I
fall deeper in love with its changing voice.
_Dream Forest_ is a digital binaural recording of one of those
sacrosanct nights that follows a warm spring day. The first
thunderstorm of the season has passed, its lightning having released a
nutritious rainfall of freshly ionized nitrogen. Leaves are just
beginning to unfold, ferns are unfurling, and water is everywhere.
Water is running and on the move.
The sounds of peaceful trickles of running water come from all around,
and larger moving volumes can be heard in the distant background.
Emanating from around, seemingly without a direct source, a velvety
sound fills the atmosphere. It constantly evolves and undulates,
seemingly self-creating, just like the evening mist that gently floats
through the maze of ferns and thickets of shrubbery. It sounds like
insects, but this time of year is too soon after winter for the
six-leggeds to be reproducing. Surprisingly, the trilling is toads.
In the distance, amid the loose debris of the forest floor, a subtle
soothing chorus of spring peepers (_Pseudacris crucifer_) can be heard
as well, the earliest frogs in the spring to call in this area. They
call from the pools and puddles caused by the spring melt waters and
previous winter rains. Their crescendo of nighttime whistles from
amorous males are as much a sign of the end of winter as the return of
migratory birds. Spring peepers are very small, only about an inch to
an inch and a half long. Rarely do I get to see one — I have stood
right by the pond where they are calling and suddenly shine a
flashlight into the shallow water only to see nothing. No movement —
just dead leaves on the pond bottom. Oy, these guys have good
camouflage! Spring peepers will also climb and lift themselves up out
of the water on twigs and stems, perhaps to make their call carry
further.
Most people from the city don’t know what they are, thinking they
are a kind of insect like a cricket.
They start calling here in late April, and they will continue calling
into June when these small wet areas begin to dry up. In May other
species start to join in. They usually sing after dusk, and stop when
the temperature gets down to about 12 C (53 F). Though they may start
up for a short chorus during the day, if it is cloudy and rainy.
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WILDERNESS RIVER
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Duration: 66 minutes 51 seconds, Size: 91.8 MB.
It’s early spring and this secluded Ontarion backcountry wilderness
river is filling its streambed with fresh volumes of spirited,
sparkling meltwater. The bright, radiant reflection of watery
frequencies off the crystalline snow-breaded banks, coupled with the
extra revitalizing flow of spring snowmelt, creates a special seasonal
sound of exceptional vibrant sonic clarity.
Several unique properties give this field recording a special
enchanting aura. The location I recorded it from was unique in that I
had found a large two-yard wide, relatively flat-surfaced rock that
was almost exactly centered in the riverbed where I set up my mikes
and baffle. The river splits and flows past both sides of the rock and
reintertwines right from behind. Water is also bubbling its own
nuances from underneath this useful instrumental rock.
The headphone-clad listener will be facing upstream as a full
360-degree binaural panorama of surround sound water swishes and
bubbles past omni-directionally to either side and behind. As
lower-pitched kerplunks and soft percussive notes of water emanate
from below, eddies swirl sensuously to either side, and a thousand
spherical points of sound drift across the riverbed. Cedar and pine
trees alternate with oak and maple among the surrounding flora.
A minimalist field recording, Wilderness River has no birds, no
animals, no wind, no insects and no man-made sounds (cars, planes,
voices, etc.) that’d act to occupy or engage your attention — only
the constant, continuous stress-busting sound of gentle, soothing,
streaming water.
_Wilderness River_ is a non-looped natural soundscape composed of an
hour-long on-location digital stereo quasi-binaural field recording.
This recording technique produces a three-dimensional audio image when
listening with earphones or headphones. Bitrate encoded at 192 kbps
for finest audio reproduction.
Soundmasking attributes of Wilderness River
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPad
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
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> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
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Car horn
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Fire truck siren
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HEALING STORM
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Duration: 65 minutes 21 seconds, Size: 89.7 MB.
Gentle cleansing trickles of rain eagerly bruit the advent of a steady
downpour of mild to moderate intensity. Low, rolling moans of thunder
resonate across the skies in lingering intervals as they mend the mind
and persona from a long day’s endeavors. A comprehensive
auscultation with stereo headphones leaves the listener refreshed with
a contemplation of purity and renewal.
_Healing Storm_ is a clear crystalline atmosphere that is distant and
non-threatening with tender, delicate rumbles rather than sharp
crackling thunder. There is a wonderful sense of comfort and enjoyment
of hearing nature’s power from a safe distance.
No animals, birds, people, cars or mechanical sounds are included. No
music or voices are added. _Healing Storm_ is a natural soundscape
composed of edited and mixed digital stereo quasi-binaural field
recordings. This recording technique produces a 3-dimensional auditory
image when listening with headphones. Encoded at a bitrate of 192 kbps
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CALEDONIAN SQUALLS
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Duration: 65 minutes 51 seconds, Size: 90.4 MB.
I am absolutely in love with Scotland.
Firstly, the accent here is so endearing. The soft accents are very
sweet and congenial, while the thicker accents are thoroughly amusing.
I kinda wish I had a Scottish accent. Although I can roll my R’s
pretty well, I can’t seem to get the lilting of the Scottish melody
down just quite yet.
Scotland is just darn beautiful. It has snow, it has beautiful glens
and pristine rolling hills, it has zillions of miles of unspoiled
picturesque wilderness.
And everywhere that I go there is the smell of soft grandmotherly
perfume wafting in the air, not harsh overpowering perfume like the
kind that women smokers wear to cover up the stench of nicotine, but
rather, a flowery smell soldered with the scent of a fresh, clean
baby.
Another thing is the people here are so decidedly friendly —
strangers have invited me out on several occasions, from which one of
them is how this recording came to be.
It was a long hike before we set up camp, which I found out later was
around -10°c — and even though it was only four o’clock, night
was washing over us. My gore-tex alpine bivysack and -20°C sleeping
bag did keep me toasty when I was basking in its warmth but come
morning my boots and water bottle were completely frozen, and packing
up the bivysack/thermarest/sleeping bag and various other sundries was
a serious challenge with hands and feet I wasn’t sure belonged to me
anymore.
Nevertheless, throughout the morning I traipsed about aimlessly
through the snow–_listening_. Not for anything in particular, just
the whole place; not a thought, not a word.
Eventually I sussed out a spot in a large area of pine trees
especially chosen for its particularly musical qualities, about 20
feet into the cluster. This particular patch of trees was relatively
dense which barred the wind from sundering itself, but rather, allowed
it to sing its way around and over the trees.
I found that this exuberant sound is special to this particular spot,
because when I tried a few other locations that were easier to get to,
all failed to match the essence that I captured here. I set up my
recording equipment quickly and in hushed amazement pressed RECORD.
_Caledonian Squalls_ is a delightfully rousing white noise MP3 with 65
minutes of deep, balming winds heartily rushing through the pines of
the Scottish Cairngorms.
Wandering through fields of stridulate noise, wafting on languid
breezes, these winds conjure a pleasantly piquant air doused with
low-pitched frequencies that lend a pensive edge to this delicate
aural lattice.
They as well provide an elusive foundation for the aerial sonic
stream, gradually accumulating a subtle puissance until reaching a
level of heightened intensity naturally crafted to stimulate the
subconscious, only to nimbly glissade back into moderate aplomb.
Excellent for both sleep and study, this wintry field recording is a
breathy atmosphere conveyed by relaxing rhythms of infinite scope,
naturally executed with placid restraint. No birds, animals, or planes
are included.
Soundmasking attributes of Caledonian
Squalls
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPad
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
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Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
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SNOWSTREAM
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Thousands of joyous sinuous streams are born in the snowy range, but
nary a poet among them all can sing like my little friend here.
Men are not born equal, neither are streams. This snowy alpine stream
here was born a poet, a perfect seraph among its palavering fellows.
This stream sang cheerily at every ripple, establishing liquid tempos
amid pleasantly shrill chords of crystalline demeanor, and its tasty
dose of bubbles strived to elevate the frivolous mien.
Even in these barren white fields frozen with snow, these alabaster
deserts ostensibly devoid of all life, here lies an emphatically
frolicsome, simultaneously imperterturbable wilderness glacier stream
— a tenuous bubbling soup of placid sonic textures and pleasantly
shrill ricocheting notes of water.
And even if one harbors no interest in these brilliantly sculpted
pine-tinged mountain topographies and their contemplative
environments, this songful silvery rill mesmerizes and captivates the
listener with its lush ruminative qualities, expertly banishing
tension and transporting the listener to realms of contagious
relaxation.
_Snowstream_ is a non-layered, non-processed natural white noise
soundscape composed of a digital stereo binaural-baffled on-location
field recording. This recording technique produces a three-dimensional
audio image when listening with earphones or headphones. Bitrate
encoded at 192 kbps for finest audio reproduction.
Soundmasking attributes of Snowstream
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volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
Shouting/yelling
Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
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SPRINKLIN’ CRICKETS
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Recorded on a quiet misty summer night, light rain dribbles upon a
small moonlit bank while a deep mesmerizing concert of gentle chirping
night crickets peep and whistle along with a backdrop harmony of
myriad other night time insects. You can hear the occasional fall of
dewdrops from the leaves.
I have supplemented this with a steady stream of soothing white noise.
Designed to provide the nostalgic auditory summer stimulus that winter
and urban living lacks, this’ll help you find your organic sense of
grounding that you usually seem to lose during the winter months.
The elements of rhythm are complimented by a natural randomness factor
that is relaxing, soothing, and pleasantly refreshing. These
combinations of sound best stimulate one’s auditory sense, while the
absence of bass frequencies leaves the attention unperturbed. These
unique characteristics make this MP3 an aid for meditation, relief for
depression and stress, and a natural drug-free gadget for insomniacs.
This passes beyond the realms of awesome into dimensions of quantum
hyperliquidawesome not yet charted by humankind that if you were able
to grasp the mere concept of it its awesomeness would simultaneously
explode both your bladder and brain.
NyQuil in the form of audio.
Listen to this while driving and you’ll _die_.
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OCEAN BREEZE
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Duration: 64 minutes 06 seconds, Size: 88.0 MB.
Although some parts are only accessible by boat, spend a week within
and around the Small Isles off the coast of Skye in Scotland and
it’ll happily dawn upon you that the beauty and splendor of this
breathtaking island archipelago finds itself aesthetically rivaled
only by its soothing canorous bluster and melodious maritime soughs.
This breezy seashore soundscape was binaurally recorded and
photographed at Laig Bay on the Isle of Eigg. In the distance, the sun
takes a seat atop the Isle of Rùm, respite from the heat of its long
day — and I’m sitting on a rock tickling the sand with my feet as
I replay in my mind the shifting moods and varied venues of my own
vested day.
In the background, a soothing low breeze quietly bustles along the
surface of the water as it spreads across the ocean and permeates into
the bay. It is calmer here, and it’s somewhat of a mitigating relief
to listen to the ocean’s song from this location — most of the
waves and winds that would have made it into the bay are blocked by
the surrounding cliffs.
The muffled ocean swells and complaisant sighing winds are in tranquil
unison, and they act upon one another in joyful confluence to wash
away the listener’s worries. The background breeze constantly
mumbles in low monotonous baritone, the distant rolling waves are
blended and modified by the ocean’s draft and multiplied by the
bay’s echoing cliffs, and water from the enervated surf gently laps
against the foreground conglomeration of rocks and small boulders in
whispered laughs of splash and spray.
_Ocean Breeze_ is a natural soundscape composed of edited and mixed
digital stereo quasi-binaural field recordings. This recording
technique produces a three-dimensional audio image when listening with
earphones or headphones. Bitrate encoded at 192 kbps for finest audio
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FOREST BROOK
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Duration: 63 minutes 43 seconds, Size: 87.5 MB.
I’m strolling through the woods, sunlight filtering down through the
verdant canopy above, my feet rustling through several inches of
yesteryear’s cast off leaves. At first, I notice a seemingly special
ambience to the area without being able to put a finger on exactly
what has changed.
Then, as I continue hiking about, I recognize in the distance the
faint familiar sound of running water. I detour towards the source of
sound and start to explore. Suddenly — arriving at a small narrow
valley, a neat little brook rambling about a bed of rocks unfolds
before my eyes as melodic gurgles of sparkling wonderment greet me in
welcome.
A constant mesmerizing chorus of babbling bubbles, gabbling gurgles,
encircling eddies and subtly sputtering splashes, the sound produced
is nothing short of magical – calming yet reinvigorating.
Contains no birds or animals. My special thanks and gratitude goes out
to Kevin Flannery. He’s the landowner of this wonderful brook and
graciously gave me the permission to record it.
_Forest Brook_ is a non-looped natural soundscape composed of an
hour-long on-location digital stereo binaural field recording. This
recording technique produces a three-dimensional audio image when
listening with earphones or headphones. Bitrate encoded at 192 kbps
for finest audio reproduction.
Soundmasking attributes of Forest Brook
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPad
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
Shouting/yelling
Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
= inaudible = audible
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INTERGALACTIC CRUISER
Duration: 66 minutes 29 seconds, Size: 91.3 MB.
To the esteemed space traveler:
May you find the sleeping quarters of this Stellium Mark IV I.S.S.
MF-4360 Supreme Intergalactic Starcruiser to be fair and satisfactory.
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SLEEPY JUNGLE SLUMBER
Duration: 65 minutes 33 seconds, Size: 90.0 MB.
Darkness in the Amazon rainforest sneaks up on you swiftly and
silently like a hungry snake going after its prey. Suddenly, against
all expectation, it pounces on you violently, swallowing you whole
into its belly.
Through the opening of my humble grass hut, as I laid in my hammock, I
witnessed a rush of vibrant colors: a flash of crimson, a moment of
magenta, a sudden burst of red, then — _blackness_!
The racket of birds and monkeys died as quickly as the sun, and night
was ushered in by a horde of strange new voices: the warbling of tree
frogs, occasionally accented with the bark of larger frogs, the
chirping of bats and the shrill chorus of insects, the snoring sounds
of unidentified animals and the distant howling of monkeys.
I grappled for my headlight as I ventured out of my hut and into my
dugout canoe in total darkness and headed down the river. I casted my
gaze upwards. The sky was dotted with countless sparkling stars like I
had never seen, so unmuddled and clear that the constellations were
apparent.
Lost somewhere amongst them was a full moon shimmering its pale light
upon the water, regaling my eyes with incandescent sparkles of eternal
rapture. I sat speechless, transfixed and gasping for air in a
chimerical dreamlike aesthetic haze, wondering how one could describe
such beauty without comparing it to something else. Words seemed
clinical and inadequate.
Not even a poet could do it justice — it was simply the _most
beautiful_ thing I had ever seen in all my years of living. I was
humbled. My mind melted and I absorbed with intensity all the strange
noises creeping out from the jungle’s silhouette as I glided through
the velvety darkness in complete awe.
A moment later, I became aware of a subtle light, a deep rich amber
refulgence dawning from far away, beyond the partly sealed rim of my
weary eyes. It was a cloud of fireflies dancing about, fluttering and
reeling in ecstasy, suffusing the night with a savory surreal
bioluminescent mise en scène. Pandering to my infantile compulsions I
paddled closer to catch one in my hand.
I doubted seriously if anything could top what I had already recorded
but, incidentally, I had noticed with my ears something strange yet
infinitely alluring — the environmental noise-to-signal ratio in
this area of the jungle was remarkably high, and it was entirely
natural. I pulled my canoe up onto the bank of the river, switched on
my light and ambled about deep into the forest until I was satisfied
with an excellent stereo arrangement, set up my equipment and pressed
RECORD.
Sleepy Jungle Slumber contains no fade-in or fade-out and can be
seamlessly played on repeat without any sudden distractions. Digital
stereo binaural recording. Bitrate encoded at 192 kbps for quality
listening.
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HEALING WAVES
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Duration: 66 minutes 42 seconds, Size: 91.6 MB.
_Healing Waves_ features soft secluded turquoise waves breaking
offshore upon long ridges of sandbars, which then roll up and wash
onto the glistening coast with positively relaxing vicissitudes of
both impulse and impuissance.
Designed with a view of rest and recovery for tired bodies and aching
appendages, for exerted minds and exhausted faculties, for wounded
hearts and disenchanted souls, this silky smooth ocean soundscape
relaxes and recuperates, recenters and re-equilibrates, revitalizes
and refreshes the listener with a watery cradle of complete auditory
zen.
To record _Healing Waves_ a secluded low tide area was selected,
surrounded by a stunning profusion of forests and rocky cliffs, far
from homes and highways in an isolated bay. Recording took place
during the early evening twilight.
You can hear the low rumbling frequencies of the distant breaking
waves, which eagerly precede the final overspread upon the beach.
Every so often the subtle strike of ocean spray can just as well be
heard lapping against the large foreground rock sitting off in the
distance a little to the left of the microphones.
This specific region proved to be perfect for recording the evening
tide without any distractions. The result is a pure pristine recording
that sounds very open, immediate, alive, and overflowing with the
energy of harmonic ocean waves.
_Healing Waves_ is a natural soundscape digitally recorded using
stereo binaural HRTF microphones and includes no sounds of animals,
birds, people, voices, or traffic. No music has been added. Bitrate
encoded at 192 kbps for quality listening.
Listen to this if you ever reach into the blender to dislodge a stuck
icecube without unplugging it first.
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DEVIL’S POOL
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The world-famous _Devil’s Pool_ — the most dangerous natural
infinity pool on Earth. Recorded in late August of 2009.
The Devil’s Pool is a naturally formed pool located right on the
edge of Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall in the world. Because
the water level was low, I was allowed to explore areas of Victoria
Falls that were usually under heavy rushing water — so instead of
overwhelming brumes of mist soaking me to the bone, I could see the
cliff faces with steep scary drops to the mighty Zambezi River
underneath.
Nevertheless, loud roaring caterwauls of forceful moving water was
everywhere around me, everywhere I turned. The falls were spilling
over only half of the gorge while the other half was somewhat dry for
the moment, and I hiked along the edge. Just a few months after this
recording took place, tremendous amounts of violent rushing water will
be storming over my footprints. After a 40 minute hike along and
through the myriad boulders and creeks, my arrival at the Smoke that
Thunders was greeted by a man in khaki shorts who approached me with
an exciting offer — and before I knew it, I was wading into the
water with my recording equipment safe and sound in my Pelican 1500
waterproof case.
For a nominal fee you can dive off a rock at the edge of Victoria
Falls into a naturally occuring eddy pool called the Devil’s Pool.
But it is literally right on the edge — on the _lip_ of the edge —
of the waterfall, and you jump into a pool of surprisingly unperturbed
water. But just before the river’s current washes you over the edge,
you’re stopped right on the brink — mere inches from the chasm —
due to a natural rock wall just below the surface of the water that
stops your progress. You can only do it in the dry season though
(mid-August through January or February depending on rainfall), lest
you wish upon yourself a terminal freefall descent into a jaggedy rock
grave — any other time of the year and the sheer volumes of water
will be entirely too much for you to stand your ground.
My guide performs a running dive straight into the pool, pulls himself
up and stands on the extreme verge of the waterfall. One minuscule
nudge from the tip of my little pinky finger and he’d have been a
_goner!_ He hollers over the trumpeting cacophony of deafening white
noise and signals for me to hop in. My heart is _pounding_ like a
kettle drum. I lay my Pelican case onto a flat-faced rock, assume a
steady stance, and — _GERONIMO!_ — lunge forth into the
world-renowned Devil’s Pool.
It really is true — I’m stopped by a naturally formed barrier of
petrified basalt submerged just a few inches below the surface of the
water, and it protects me from tumbling into the river gorge far
below. He’s proposed to dangle me over the edge. _Heck_, why not! I
crawl ever so precariously closer towards the lush miasma of
thundering smoke, the vast void of milky white floating mist — until
my belly button passes over the dead-end margin of the falls and runs
perpendicular to the cliff’s face.
He takes hold of my legs, and — I stoop my head to witness a bevy of
beautiful double rainbows as soft squiggly rills of water trickle down
my back and off into the Zambezi river chasm below.
I skipped a heartbeat. My stomach lurched. Adrenaline _raced_ through
my veins.
Amorphous liquid monoliths coalesced below, eminent and imperial.
It was such an amazing sight to behold — and such a long, long, long
way down. Certainly an _electrifying_ experience for the more
acrophobic-inclined.
The constant turgid sea of broadband brown noise produced by the
aggregate activity of countless collocated swiftly cascading rivulets
of water stretched wide across an entire mile — married the
simultaneous explosion of stratospheric pink noise bursting from
neighboring waterfalls of the immediate vicinity; and the sound was
like the snarling yawn of ten thousand slumbering gods —
vociferously soothing with a degree of enjoyable vitality:
invigorating and mesmerizing, voluminously robust and fretlessly
bassful.
I swam my way back to my carefully reclined case of safely ensconced
electronic paraphernalia, set up my headband-baffled omni-directional
binaural microphone pair, laid prone atop the Devil’s lip and
pressed RECORD — my Sound Devices 744T audibly preserving the
world’s loudest infinity pool to its mechanical will. I snapped up
this photo afterwards.
_Devil’s Pool_ is a non-looped natural soundscape composed of an
hour-long on-location digital stereo, omni-directional binaural field
recording. This recording technique produces a three-dimensional audio
image when listening with earphones or headphones. Bitrate encoded at
192 kbps for finest audio reproduction. Includes no music and no
sounds of voices or people, birds or animals, planes or cars. The full
hour-length MP3 includes no fade-in or fade-out at the beginning or
end, so it can be seamlessly played on repeat without any distractions
or sudden change of volume.
Soundmasking attributes of Devil’s Pool
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPad
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
Shouting/yelling
Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
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SPRING NOCTURNE
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Duration: 62 minutes 00 seconds, Size: 85.1 MB.
Winter is over and spring is in the air. In _Spring Nocturne_, we are
treated to a surround-sound panoramic symphony of distant spring
peepers, one of the first among many vernal ensembles to announce the
season’s arrival.
The air is flowing with hazy white mist, the calm quiet midnight
atmosphere vibrates with the deep spacious stillness of their hypnotic
lullaby, and we hear the sweet accompaniment of the trilling of toads
and chorus frogs that join in every now and then (whose vocals sound
similar to running a finger along the teeth of a comb).
They are collectively awakened by the thawing of the earth as they
slumber in their winter beds underneath a thick insulating layer of
leaves and soil, and for 62 minutes we are pampered with the regal
ambience of their melancholic crooning.
Usually they will begin to stir and peep during the warmer and rainy
nights of spring, and even when there are still a few traces of snow
and ice sitting on the edges of their ponds, they are not at all
deterred — they just slip themselves under the ice and either drift
about freely or hang onto a straying leaf or stick or other floating
debris.
By the middle of April the male peepers will stake out their positions
around the periphery of these ponds and puddles as they sing their
little hearts out to entice the female peepers. It may take a few
nights of intense singing, but in due time these considerably
selective females will become attracted to certain males. The male
peepers with tiptop voices draw in the most females — although with
thousands of them singing all at once, it is difficult to single out
just that one perfect voice.
Early mating this time of spring allows their newborn tadpoles to
mature before the sweltering heat of summer starts to dry up their
puddles and ponds. However, the only problem with doing this is that
they may encounter a deviating “late” spring freeze. Once the
youngsters are mature, they will spread out over the land to feast
upon insects at night, and rest during the warmth of the day. Sexual
maturity won’t be reached until they are about 3 to 4 years of age.
As long as the weather conditions are warm and/or humid, the
harmonious tumult of peeps and whistles carries on uninterrupted. If
the weather becomes cool, the singing takes a temporary interlude
until the next warm spell.
By early June, the singing ceases altogether except for the one or two
odd loud mouths. It’s no coincidence that these little frogs awaken
just as the first bugs of spring begin to appear. On the same nights
that I first hear these peepers, my windshield can always be found
covered with bugs (which are also just rewakening).
People often wonder how it is that these tiny little creatures can
make so much noise but, in direct relation to its petite size, the
spring peeper is apparently one of the loudest animals on Earth! The
male spring peeper has a special sac attached to his throat that
allows him to sing — using this sac, he squeezes air over the vocal
cords and proceeds to amplify the sound by extensively inflating his
throat into a large balloon-like bubble, and this produces an
ear-piercing high-pitched peeping sound that can be heard for almost 2
kilometers away. The females don’t have this kind of fun — only
the male peepers are endowed with this magical sac!
_Spring Nocturne_ is a non-looped natural soundscape composed of an
hour-long on-location digital stereo binaural field recording. This
recording technique produces a three-dimensional audio image when
listening with earphones or headphones. There are no other sounds of
birds, insects, people, cars, planes, wind, rain or water. No layering
effects were used. Bitrate encoded at 192 kbps for finest audio
reproduction.
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BIRTH OF A SUPERCELL
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Duration: 65 minutes 7 seconds, Size: 89.4 MB.
A most acoustically serendipitous happenstance as it may be, this
fabulous chance recording was chronicled right on the spur of pure
tragedy — I honestly had not foreseen recording this magnificent
auditory spectacle of mother nature on the steps of my friend’s
porch during the series of severe storms on the dreaded afternoon of
August 19th, 2005.
Honestly. I mean, we were discussing politics and homemade chicken pot
pie in the dining room while simultaneously engorging ourselves with
homemade chicken pot pie. We certainly weren’t discussing torrential
windstorms the size of Angelina Jolie’s upper lip.
That’s why you carry your portable field recording gear with you
_wherever_ you go no matter _what_, homeslice.
Having been armed with a matched stereo pair of DPA 4060-BMs clipped
onto my hoodie (touching each ear for quasi-binaural imaging), a
PA-24NJ battery mic preamp, and a Sony PCM-M1 DAT, I captured the
complete sonic birth, early incursion and epochal cortex of a
supercell storm.
The Toronto Supercell storm struck at 12:30pm as part of the Southern
Ontario Tornado Outbreak of 2005, which later spawned two F2 strength
tornadoes, produced winds of well over 100km/h, golf ball sized hail,
extensively flooded more than half of the Greater Toronto Area, and
completely laid to waste Finch Avenue near Sentinel Road in North York
with damages in excess of $10 million CAD.
Everyone was inside their homes in quiet apprehension except for me.
The winds were _galvanizing_ — had I used my tripod or HRTF baffle
to record this, my gear would’ve easily been swept away as supercell
fodder in one succinct blast of wind. Thus, I sat, I meditated — and
I _reveled_ — in this profusely _awesome_ auditive exhibit of
nature’s unrelenting power.
_Birth of a Supercell_ is a non-looped natural soundscape composed of
an hour-long on-location digital stereo quasi-binaural field
recording. This recording technique produces a three-dimensional audio
image when listening with earphones or headphones. Contains no sounds
of birds, animals, people or voices. Bitrate encoded at 192 kbps for
finest audio reproduction.
Soundmasking attributes of Birth of a
Supercell
when combined with Sennheiser HD-380 PRO headphones at 85% iPad
volume
(The 380s are amazingly comfortable for side-sleepers)
< 6.5ft
> 6.5ft
> 20ft
> 49ft
Talking
Snoring
Crying baby
Barking dog
Shouting/yelling
Truck revving
Car horn
Lawnmower
Motorcycle revving
Fire truck siren
Jackhammer
= inaudible = audible
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, best
for meditation
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sleep , best
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, high-pitched
, medium-pitched
, natural
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