Does anyone else here love relaxing sounds that aren't necessarily music? I mean rain, wind, ocean waves, etc. This is a thread to post those. This is one of my favorite rain recordings ever. It lasts an hour. It's called "A Day On Cape Cod: Summer Rain" and it's by The Atmosphere Collection. It's super relaxing. Great for stress, going to sleep or drowning out unpleasant sounds.
I just enjoy listening to the peaceful sounds. I don't do meditation. I especially love the sound of rain. For me, I don't think there's a more relaxing sound on earth than the sound of rain.
The problem with rain sounds is that if you're like me, and you've lived in places out in the country with inadequate drainage or mudslide threats, the sound of rain can be extremely enervating. Presumably the same is true for people who live in areas with high storm risk, like we're seeing in the southeastern USA right now...
"Field recordings" is an ambient subgenre in which there's a spectrum running from "relaxing/soothing" on one end, to "raw/unfiltered" on the other. Most of the material highlighted in Bandcamp's monthly Best Field Recordings feature tends more toward the latter, whereas most of the stuff that gets lots of Youtube subscribers (i.e., the material posted in this thread so far) tends more towards the former. I'm obviously generalizing, but the relaxing stuff seems to be more "watery" (ocean waves and rain) whereas the raw stuff is more for people who want to close their eyes and imagine they're out in the woods somewhere with nobody around, whether or not that helps them sleep/relax, or makes them want to go get a towel.
Speaking only for myself, I do like some ambient stuff, and I guess I prefer "raw" field recordings for the reason(s) I already mentioned, but if I actually want to relax and maybe take a nap, I'm afraid I'm fairly conventional and will usually just put on some barely-audible improvisational piano music (or else nothing at all). I wish I'd gotten into recording in that genre myself back when Spotify was new, since many of the people who did made large amounts of money at it, but hindsight is always 20-20, I guess!
The problem with rain sounds is that if you're like me, and you've lived in places out in the country with inadequate drainage or mudslide threats, the sound of rain can be extremely enervating. Presumably the same is true for people who live in areas with high storm risk, like we're seeing in the southeastern USA right now...
"Field recordings" is an ambient subgenre in which there's a spectrum running from "relaxing/soothing" on one end, to "raw/unfiltered" on the other. Most of the material highlighted in Bandcamp's monthly Best Field Recordings feature tends more toward the latter, whereas most of the stuff that gets lots of Youtube subscribers (i.e., the material posted in this thread so far) tends more towards the former. I'm obviously generalizing, but the relaxing stuff seems to be more "watery" (ocean waves and rain) whereas the raw stuff is more for people who want to close their eyes and imagine they're out in the woods somewhere with nobody around, whether or not that helps them sleep/relax, or makes them want to go get a towel.
Speaking only for myself, I do like some ambient stuff, and I guess I prefer "raw" field recordings for the reason(s) I already mentioned, but if I actually want to relax and maybe take a nap, I'm afraid I'm fairly conventional and will usually just put on some barely-audible improvisational piano music (or else nothing at all). I wish I'd gotten into recording in that genre myself back when Spotify was new, since many of the people who did made large amounts of money at it, but hindsight is always 20-20, I guess!
Thanks for the link. I'll check it out. I'm always looking for new recordings of this type. I get a lot of them in my Spotify Release Radar and I have a few stations of this type on Pandora. I love rain, ocean waves, and wind. I also like crickets and the sound of an airplane cabin.
The problem with rain sounds is that if you're like me, and you've lived in places out in the country with inadequate drainage or mudslide threats, the sound of rain can be extremely enervating. Presumably the same is true for people who live in areas with high storm risk, like we're seeing in the southeastern USA right now...
I agree with the sentiment here but not because of bad drainage it's because I often work outdoors. When it rains and rains and even your collar is soaking wet and chafing on your neck and the cold rain is dripping inside your shirt (no matter how much waterproofing you wear it still finds a way) and your fingers and toes always go numb because the water is cold and drains away your body heat. (We’re not talking summer showers here). It's such a miserable experience and definitely gets in the way of any relaxing feeling around rain.
The problem with rain sounds is that if you're like me, and you've lived in places out in the country with inadequate drainage or mudslide threats, the sound of rain can be extremely enervating. Presumably the same is true for people who live in areas with high storm risk, like we're seeing in the southeastern USA right now...
I agree with the sentiment here but not because of bad drainage it's because I often work outdoors. When it rains and rains and even your collar is soaking wet and chafing on your neck and the cold rain is dripping inside your shirt (no matter how much waterproofing you wear it still finds a way) and your fingers and toes always go numb because the water is cold and drains away your body heat. (We’re not talking summer showers here). It's such a miserable experience and definitely gets in the way of any relaxing feeling around rain.
I can see that making the sound of rain unpleasant for people who have been through that. But thankfully, nothing like that has happened so far to ruin the calming sound of rain for me.
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