What makes that city noise at night? That strangely non-descript hum. That audible presence that seems to be made of nothing and everything, and comes from nowhere and everywhere, and that is so familiar to us city dwellers. Its origin is uncertain. Probably impossible to pin down. City hum does not exist outside of cities though, so that at least explains something. Perhaps that's its charm. That city hum can't be explained. And so why, like other things that cannot be fully explained, it seems to possess some very valuable properties. Especially to those seeking rest.
At night, city hum with its endless lulling flow, seeps in through every window open. Every door ajar. Aural balm, for tired minds. And it greets the garden wonderer, come out to look for stars, with a soft inky black message, that says, welcome, to the night. Welcome, to these tawny roosted hours, watched over by owls. To this other version of the same world, where light shrinks to speckled dots, and all that is, all that is anything, is there to be seen through listening. City hum ebbs and flows. Echoes with night birds, and susurates between countless details across landscape forms. Listening into it, really listening to hear into its depths, can be like counting sheep. Soft city sheep, come to help you listen, come to help you sleep.
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This is a section of an all night recording we made in Exeter a few days ago. It's in the back garden of a house from 1am. It captures the stillness of the city and two tawny owls against a backdrop of dreamy sounding seagulls. Exeter is in Devon, in the South West of England.
141 Soft land murmuring - Wooler, Northumberland
140 Fishing village harbour at night (sleep safe)
139 Old rafters brewing storm
138 Ocean peace above Folkestone beach (sleep safe)
137 Night rains amongst moorland trees (sleep safe)
136 Curling folding breaking waves (high-definition sound and sleep safe)
135 A natural sound report from the Forest of Dean
134 Night waves rolling onto Coldingham Sands (sleep safe)
133 Vivid rain - rolling thunder (very spatial experience with headphones)
132 A bird watcher’s outpost beneath the telegraph wires
131 A thousand years along the Creel Path
Daydream 4 - water rain wind
Daydream 3 - rain water woods (new material coming soon)
Daydream 2 - lazy summer days
Daydream 1 (a series of short August adventures)
130 Dartmoor stream above waterfall gorge - hydrotherapeutic + * sleep safe*
129 Pristine quiet to early dawn (includes woodcock roding calls in full spatial detail)
128 Persistent rain (long, sleep safe, may ease heat fatigue when used in combination with a fan)
127 Mirrored ambiences from a summer meadow at Wrabness
126 The seawall and the night patrolling curlews (quiet, long, sleep safe)
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