There’s a great deal of racket in our lives right about now, so as the world works itself into a noisy frenzy, let’s look for auricular refuge.
Each week during Covid-tide, Robert Fripp has been releasing Music for Quiet Moments.
Two years ago the electronic musician r beny played around with a device called the Elektron Digitone and came up with something really lovely.
I am a fan of the Field Recordings podcast which offers recordings of people in … fields. “Fields” being defined rather broadly.
Here you may listen to wood warblers, and other creatures, in the Brecon Beacons of Wales.
This sounds a lot like fishing with my father, also from the U.K., a man sitting by a pond for a long time waiting for a carp.
Moby created several hours of quiet ambient music for himself but ultimately decided to make it available to us.
The Naturespace app is happy place on my phone. The quality of their nature recordings is as my kids say perf.
Ambient Church, a wonderful multimedia show from a couple of years back. (Not sure it has much to do with church, except architecturally.)
And finally, Craig Mod has for a few years now been making brief binaural ambient recordings of his walks in Japan. Gotta have headphones for these — really, for everything I’m sharing today but especially for these.