Rain on thick canopy is nice.
Rain on a metal roof. Heavy is best. Drowns out the world
My dog makes this whistle noise and also a meow noise when it’s morning and it’s time to start the day, when he’s just happy to be awake and walking.
The low end range of a filtered square wave from a Moog model d
A man of culture
We just adopted a second cat to keep our first (supposedly cat hating) cat company. My new favorite sound is the pitter patter of their little paws as they play together every single morning and evening.
Bird chirping is pretty high on the list! Cats purrring is also way up there, floowedd by raindrops, winds tooling and campfires!
Wind through the poplar tree leaves.
Peeps have mentioned the light rain on a tent, I’ll one up by adding a thunderstorm in the distance.
The wind through a casurina tree.
(Especially whilst sitting in their shade on a 40C degree day)
A dog sniffing, snorting, or snoring.
Many have said things that are more immersive sounds or almost soundscapes like rain on roof, but I have a clear favourite short and snappy sound and that is the sound of when a basketball goes clean through the hoop without touching the rim, the so called swish.
Nothin’ but net. It is a very nice sound.
The sound of an English country garden on a Sunday in summer.
This is a composite of several sounds all of which must be quiet or distant enough to not be a distraction but which in conjunction are glorious:
- the sound of the breeze through the trees
- childrens’ laughter just far away enough to not be bothersome
- bees buzzing from flower to flower
- a propeller-driven light aircraft from a nearby aerodrome (ideally this would be a vintage plane with a Merlin engine, lazily warbling in the distance)
- the sound of leather on willow, and the occasional call and muted cheer, from a cricket match on the village green
- the gentle burble of a stream
- church bells, far enough away that their individual peels almost blend into each other
- the clink of ice as someone pours a perfect gin and tonic.
I went to an isolation float tank once where you get to choose the sounds/music you hear at the beginning and end of the session. I chose “Alpine meadows” that had bees buzzing, light wind moving in trees and grass and little bells chiming and it was my favourite part of the experience, I could have listened to that the whole hour. What you described is very similar and would make a great soundscape for situations like that!
Rain when I go to sleep.
Dog yawns
Church bells.
