At the Desk

A keyboard typed slowly in a quiet room: the soft click of keys with long pauses for thought. Distant birds beyond the window, now and then a chair or a book. Synthesised, not recorded.

1 hNo headphones needed

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.

How is it made?

  • Tactile sound · keyboard (ambient sound generated on your device)
  • Brown noise
  • Birds · daytime (ambient sound generated on your device)
  • Place sounds · second-hand bookshop (ambient sound generated on your device)
  • Distant crowd (ambient sound generated on your device)

Sound is generated on this device in real time; no files are downloaded from a server. There is a 8 s fade-in at the start and a 1 min fade-out at the end.

Evidence

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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