Long-play dark ambient audio
From my channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@intracosmos
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Alone on an Alien Shore - Dark ambient audio (10 hours)
Generative dark ambient noise and tonalities perfect for sleep, blocking distracting and disturbing environmental noises and as a general soothing background.<br /> This piece features a slow wave wash, similar to an ocean shoreline with deep rumbling waves and some top-end wash. Low musical notes fade in and out. The audio is entirely generative over its entire length and contains no looped material.<br /> Download an 256K MP3 of this audio - and loads of other stuff - by becoming a Patreon supporter. For every video I upload here I also create a high quality MP3 file for direct download.<br /> https://www.patreon.com/richarddehove<br /> And as this is also the Patreon account of my other channel https://www.youtube.com/@richarddehove there's all sorts of interesting extra content to download as well!<br /> Image credit: Artist's concept shows exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star. This exoplanet is in its star's habitable zone (the distance where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface) and is the closest to Earth in size and temperature found yet in Kepler's data.<br /> Source: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter -
Apollo 11: Day 02 (Dark space ambience)
Day two of the Apollo 11 mission. First half of the video the crew is asleep so there are only periodic mission control updates. The crew wake up in the second half and there is almost constant radio chatter as they run through various checks and activities.<br /> Background audio is original generative ambience and uses absolutely no loops. The mood here is slightly eerie deep space emptiness which especially fits the first half as the crew is sleeping.<br /> Main image shows the Earth as photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft just after the translunar injection burn.<br /> <br /> Would you like a 256K MP3 of this audio? Then please consider becoming a Patreon supporter. For every video I upload here I also create a 256K MP3 file for direct download via Patreon.<br /> https://www.patreon.com/richarddehove<br /> And as this is also the Patreon account of my other channel https://www.youtube.com/@richarddehove there's all sorts of interesting extra content to download as well! -
Apollo 11: Day One. (Dark space ambience)
Apollo 11 mission day one from pre-launch checks 'round the horn' and 'go no-go' to countdown, launch and initial operations. Dark generative ambient background music as background, no looping music! Some sections include two channels of mission control audio in left and right channels.<br /> Image is the official Apollo 11 Crew Portrait: From left to right are astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Commander; Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module Pilot.<br /> <br /> Would you like a 256K MP3 of this audio? Then please consider becoming a Patreon supporter. For every video I upload here I also create a 256K MP3 file for direct download via Patreon.<br /> https://www.patreon.com/richarddehove<br /> And as this is also the Patreon account of my other channel https://www.youtube.com/@richarddehove there's all sorts of interesting extra content to download as well! -
Europa: Deep Ocean World (12 hours)
Twelve hours of dark ambient sleep and relaxation audio featuring constant low and deep ocean rumbles, waves and randomly evolving high but subtle melody. The entire piece is synthesised and generative. There are absolutely no loops or repeats!<br /> An excellent piece for blocking low rumbles and thumps in your environment.<br /> Image is an artist concept of the ocean system of Jupiter's moon Europa. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech<br /> <br /> Would you like a 256K MP3 of this audio? Then please consider becoming a Patreon supporter. For every video I upload here I also create a 256K MP3 file for direct download via Patreon.<br /> https://www.patreon.com/richarddehove<br /> And as this is also the Patreon account of my other channel https://www.youtube.com/@richarddehove there's all sorts of interesting extra content to download as well!
These tracks aren’t music in the usual sense. There’s no musical development beyond the initial set of parameters. From there selected randomizations give the audio constant variation. Nothing loops!
I originally started making “noise” tracks for myself as noise-blocking audio to help me sleep. I was living in a noisy neighborhood in a noisy house doing shiftwork. I tried the usual things to help me sleep through the noise: ambient music, soundproofing the room, TV background, and pure white noise. I either got sick of the music, distracted by the TV, or found that the background clunks and thumps still penetrated whatever soundproofing or competing sound source I used.
I experimented with loads of different audio combinations and finally settled on constant random variation within fairly narrow parameters. That way the sound was at a constant volume, had no surprises, yet had enough variation that thumps, voices and squawks from the house and street could fit in without startling me awake.
Over many years I’ve tried all sorts of variations. For quite a few years I made “binaural beats” using slightly different frequencies in the left and right channels to create an interference frequency set to low-Hertz “entrainment” rates. There are all sorts of wild claims about what these frequencies can do. I didn’t find anything magical about over what good dark ambient deep noise could do so have eventually discarded them – which is also a lot easier on the speakers. It also means the tracks no longer require headphones for the full effect.
The most interesting aspect of these tracks – beyond just noise blocking and sleep help – is the way they can induce dreams. I always test these tracks before uploading them, sometimes for months or even a year or more tweaking the parameters. Almost all f the can activate a lot of dreams although the effect seems to wear off after a period of days, or if I’m lucky, weeks. So “fresh” audio is needed to keep up the effect. I’ve also found that the more active the track the better the effect – simple noise or rain sounds won’t activate any dreams, at least for me.
Why this should be so I have no idea. It works for me and if it has any effect for you I’d love to ear about it.
With each of these videos I also have an MP3 for download for Patreon subscribers. In all cases it is a 256K MP3 to ensure the audio retains full quality. Of course that means big files, a 10-hour MP3 is typically about 1Gb.
https://www.patreon.com/richarddehove
Happy drifting and dreaming,
Richard
November 2022