Stillness · The Tone Beneath the Water
The sound of a stream slowly sinks beneath the water: the highs close off, the flow turns muffled, and a low, warm tone that was there all along becomes audible. It stays that way for a while, then the water opens again. Works without headphones. A piece of sound design with no claim of any effect.
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
- Stream
- Body
- Cluster drone · 110 Hz
- What do you hear?
- busy
How is this sound made?
- Stream−28.3 dB
Stream (ambient sound generated on your device)
- Cluster drone−22.3 dB
Cluster drone · A2 (440 Hz tuning), 5 oscillators
- Reverb: hall, 26% 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 15 s fade-in at the start and a 1 min fade-out at the end.
Compare with another sound
Hear both at the same loudness; drag the slider to the middle and they blend.
In the middle the two sounds truly blend; loudness is matched.
8 trials, half of them the same sound; get at least 7 right and the difference is audible. The result stays on this device.
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.
Its neighbours on the map
The five sounds closest to this one by measured sound features.
- 1By the Stream (no headphones)Warm · textured · no melodyBoth stream · both steady, procedural · same goal: relaxation
- 2Darüşşifa CourtyardWarm · slowly evolving · melodicBoth stream · both steady, procedural · same goal: relaxation
- 3Stillness · Your Own Stillness · Water and harmonic droneDark · textured · no melodyBoth stream · both steady, procedural · same goal: relaxation
- 4Dream Gate · Dream JournalDark · textured · no melodyBoth stream · both steady, procedural · same goal: relaxation
- 5Breathing by the StreamWarm · slowly evolving · melodicBoth stream · both steady, procedural
Keep your device volume comfortable, preferably below 60%. You can also use your device's headphone-safety settings.