Nature Sounds

Toast

Strange request I guess, but does anyone know of any free nature sounds programs...I'd like to listen to swamps, rainforests, birds and other such stuff while I'm modeling on my MP3 player. I listen to a lot of music while I work, but I wouldn't mind a complete change of scene.

I used to have this one free program back like in 2001 or 2 but I can never remember its name. I tried Googling but all I get is sound effects CDs...I want free damnit! Does anyone else here listen to nature sounds?

Just to clarify, I don't mean sound effects, I mean really long field recordings that are around 30 minutes or so. Cheers.

Eric Chadwick

Buncha free tracks here.
http://music.download.com/3607-10568-0.html?tag=MDL_browseAllNode

Also
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=nature+mp3+free

J Randall

You must not have adhd, how do you not fall asleep? Try audio books, learn something, garbage in garbage out.

Michael Knubben

http://www.freesound.org/ might have some, I know it has a lot of recordings of locations.

Marisa

30 minute long classical music works for me or like J Randall said, audio books are entertaining. I would use ambient nature music to help me sleep. How do you do it?

Steviant

If you're working with a Mac, theres a couple of neat programs here: http://www.gleetchplug.com/gleetchplug/Software.html called Om. Comes in Blue and Green flavours, both are ambient music/sound generators. I find them both really nice to write to.

Toast

Thanks for the links. I probably will fall asleep but I'll just slip a loud track in the playlist to wake me up again.

Audio Books sounds like a great idea too. Thanks guys.

Michael Knubben

Oh, as far audiobooks, there are a few free ones I can think of off the top of my head.
The first would be Neil Gaiman's 'A Study in Emerald', which I loved to bits (despite having read the short story before). Neil's got a pretty pleasant reading voice:
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com/561E7854-3614-403B-8D55-5C494C115042/10/125/en/NeilGaiman
It's to the left. There are also some free ebooks there, but I don't really like reading longer stories on the screen.
There is The Moth, whose podcast features people telling stories about their city, and something that happened to them in it. There's a really gripping one on there about a guy who gets stabbed by a gang in New York. All true, I believe.: http://www.themoth.org/podcast
Then there's War of the Worlds, which I believe is public domain (but I'm not entirely sure). If you really like it, make sure to get the pure audiobook, the one with a (experimental) audio-score, and the mashup with 65daysofstatic's The Fall of Math

There's more, but you'll need to dig around for the really good ones. The few I got off of librivox didn't really do it for me.

Toast

Thanks, too bad I'm doing arch viz at the moment! Hehe, that stuff would be great for modelling characters or environements. I'll check them out though. :thumbup:

FAT_CAP

Nice suggestions with that Neil Gaiman story Mr Pea - it certainly helped pass the time during my lunch and inbetween waiting for albums/ DJ sets to download

scotths

Here are some great resources for audiobooks:

This guy reads all his books and gives them away as podcasts. He started the podcast as an unpublished author and is now incredibly successful publishing as well. Wickedly entertaining stuff.
http://www.scottsigler.com/

This site has volunteer readers reading books in the public domain. Pretty much anything written before 1920 is done or in the works. Some are, of course, better than others.
http://librivox.org/

Call me crazy, but I too would love to have an ongoing nature sounds track running while I work -- especially since at night I work in a closet.

Scott

Michael Knubben

If anyone is looking into these things for help with falling asleep, or sleeping more soundly: try using a simple looping track of white noise, it's tremendously helpful.

scotths

White noise. You can also download a thunderstorm on the downloads page.
http://www.simplynoise.com/