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Do you work or sleep with white noise, gray noise, brown noise, or exhaust fans? I have a buddy who enjoys the sound of washing machines while he works in After Effects. I thought he was out of his mind. Until I began working longer hours in After Effects and realized that listening to EPMD could increase my stress. So I saved my 90s hip-hop favorites for spinning my legs on an exercise bike and I began listening to washing machines.

I want to create a place here for all who wish to write, daydream, edit video, whatever — while listening to fans, machines, and other sounds.

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    • Arts
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Do you work or sleep with white noise, gray noise, brown noise, or exhaust fans? I have a buddy who enjoys the sound of washing machines while he works in After Effects. I thought he was out of his mind. Until I began working longer hours in After Effects and realized that listening to EPMD could increase my stress. So I saved my 90s hip-hop favorites for spinning my legs on an exercise bike and I began listening to washing machines.

I want to create a place here for all who wish to write, daydream, edit video, whatever — while listening to fans, machines, and other sounds.

Listen on Apple Podcasts
Requires macOS 11.4 or higher

    1980s Arcade Ambience

    1980s Arcade Ambience

    Retro Arcade Ambience — So picture this, your parents drop you off at the mall with five bucks, "we'll pick you up 10." Mom and Dad have a date night — and they're not playing around; they are going to the Red Lobster. Dad messed up, and now he's going to be paying for ****** lobster.



    The mall entrance is all glass and guarded by teenagers smoking cigarettes. "The **** you looking at, kid?"



    "I ain't looking at nothin’," You mutter as you hurdle through the door.



    "Yeah, you better run."



    Up some escalators and past the giant cookie place, fix your eyes on the Orange Julius and grip your five. The sounds of Space Invaders are audible now, drawing you closer to a room lit by dozens of flashing screens.

    • 4 hr
    Rainy Vermont Bed and Breakfast Bust... Ambience

    Rainy Vermont Bed and Breakfast Bust... Ambience

    Cozy fire and rain ambience — You booked your Bennington Bed and Breakfast just below the towering Battle Monument. You promised your partner it would be perfect. Hit a few trails on Prospect Mountain. Dinner and shopping downtown. Some hippy art gallery. It'll be a hoot.



    Then months of plans ruined by a fluke thaw. "It can hit 60 in February?!"



    "A'yup happens every year 'round this time," says the innkeeper dropping a plate of strata before you. "Usually, it's just a day or two; it should be cold and snowy again by Monday. Want some more coffee?"



    "You can go to hell, old man."

    They're Playing Basketball... Ambience

    They're Playing Basketball... Ambience

    Gymnasium/ basketball ambience — How do I explain this briefly? I went to military school in the South. I was that ***** of a student to need military school in the South.



    So we had a gymnasium that was not air-conditioned; all we had were gigantic fans in the ceiling that sucked the air out. So when you stood in the doorway to the outside, it was like standing in a vacuum.



    It's hot in the South. So when you play a few hours of ball, you sweat. And when you combine the sweat across your body with the vacuum feeling of standing in the doorway... There wasn't any AC that could compete; it was a magical feeling of windy cool.



    Anyway, I was a terrible student.

    Martha's Vineyard Thunderstorm and Harbor Waves... Ambience

    Martha's Vineyard Thunderstorm and Harbor Waves... Ambience

    The sounds of summer... if you summer in Vineyard Haven. Thunder, rain, waves, gulls, hail, and steamship (ferry) traffic. Recorded last June, you will hear as one storm departs and another quickly approaches. And deluge awaits you in the middle.



    Off topic... Have you ever seen Point of No Return? Bridget Fonda stars as a troubled assassin who goes headfirst down a kitchen dumbwaiter to escape a missile. I realize it's a movie, and Fonda plays a badass... like obviously, the bad guys need to carry absurd weapons. But who would think to take a ***** missile launcher into a fancy restaurant?

    • 1 hr
    OMG It's Snowing... Ambience

    OMG It's Snowing... Ambience

    Snowfall and mild traffic sounds — this is two hours of falling snow and mild traffic... but who gives a **** about that? I want to use this space to campaign for a dish washing simulator for the Nintendo. I want ****** stacks of dirty dishes that I have to figure out how to Tetris into a small dishwasher.

    • 1 hr 59 min
    Old Hotel Ice Maker and the Rain Outside... Ambience

    Old Hotel Ice Maker and the Rain Outside... Ambience

    Rainy Hotel Ambience — Have you ever wandered down a long, narrow hallway following the loud hum of an ice maker? The small room in a hotel that houses free ice and expensive snacks — $5 Doritos is a thing, y'all.



    You walk into a hum that vibrates throughout your body as you hold out your tiny ice bucket with the mini-trashbag to catch the tumbling cubes. Those ice buckets are too small.

    • 4 hr

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
9 Ratings

9 Ratings

Samanthaj24 ,

Steak-ummmm

Not only do I come here for the unique ambiences that aren’t rain sounding like pee noises but, also the very humorous and anecdotal descriptions. Definitely my cup of tea..or coffee, whichever you prefer.

aprilmhb ,

The Brook was great

It’s so peaceful and I enjoyed the historical context!

nddoozer ,

Love the bacon one!!!

Bacon!

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