Stillness · A Pause in the Day

A six-minute pause in the day: a warm, slowly shifting chord field and a stream flowing in the distance open over forty-five seconds, stay unchanged in the middle and close in the last minute. Listen wherever you are, eyes open or closed, then return to what you were doing. A piece of sound design with no claim of any effect.

6 minNo headphones neededEvidence level S: Soundscape, no claim

The same recipe with another seed: the raindrops, the order of the birds or the path of the chords change; the rules and evidence level stay the same.

Liner notes

Bed: Generative field, Stream
What do you hear?: continuous

2 layers, one sound engine; generated on this device every time it plays.

How is this sound made?

Generative field−26.3 dB
Generative field · warm (ambient sound generated on your device)
Stream−37.3 dB
Stream (ambient sound generated on your device)

Reverb: room, 18% mix

In the room you can listen to each layer on its own, change its settings and save it as your own recipe.

Sound is generated on this device in real time; no files are downloaded from a server. There is a 45 s fade-in at the start and a 1 min fade-out at the end.

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B: neighbours on the map

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What do we know, what don't we know?

S · Soundscape, no claim

No health or mental-effect claim at all; it is simply a soundscape.

This session isn't linked to any claim of effect.

A session's level is the weakest of its linked claims; it is never raised by a strong but unrelated claim.

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The five sounds closest to this one by measured sound features.

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