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Ambient sounds collection

Want to immerse yourself in some of the most beautiful environmental sounds and ambient sounds while you work, read or relax?

Our Ambient Collection brings together some of our favourite field recordings – tune in now and choose from wave sounds, birdsong, rainstorms, jungle or the pealing of bells:


About the ambient sounds collections:

Waves

Field recordings from:

– Scopello, Italy
– Stromboli, Italy
– Bornholm, Denmark
– Margate, UK
– Flat Holm Island, UK
– Sheringham, UK

Birdsong

Field recordings from:

– Unawatuna, Sri Lanka
– Mesnjak Forest, Slovenia
– Texas, USA
– Luebeck, Germany
– Oxford, UK
– Stromboli, Italy
– Waterperry Gardens, UK
– St. Ives, UK
– Trinidad, Cuba
– Kandy, Sri Lanka

Rain and storms

Field recordings from:

– London, UK
– Madison, USA
– Mexico City, Mexico
– Palermo, Italy
– Lille, France
– Stromboli, Italy
– Panovec Forest, Slovenia

Bells

Field recordings from:

– Venice, Italy
– Helsinki, Finland
– Little Washbourne, UK
– Venice, Italy
– Asiago, Italy
– Bremen, Germany
– Venice, Italy
– London, UK

Jungle 

Field recordings by Marcel Gnauk from Thailand.

Forest sounds

Field recordings from:

– Mesnjak Forest, Slovenia
– Yakushima Forest, Japan
– Forest in Gloucestershire, England
– Hantana Forest, Sri Lanka
– Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire, England
– Draznya Forest, Minsk, Belarus
– Panovec Forest, Slovenia

Rivers, streams and canals

Field recordings from:

– Bow River, Canada
– Stream and waterfall in Italy
– Knuckle Ranges, Sri Lanka
– Cladagh Glen, Northern Ireland
– Passo Tre Croci, Italy
– Male Panew River, Poland
– Venice lagoon, Italy
– Hoh rainforest trail, USA
– Crummock Water, England
– Fondamenta delle Zattere, Venice

Crickets and cicadas

Field recordings from:

– Stromboli, Italy
– Forest in Thailand
– Picton County, Canada
– Corsica, France
– Athens, Greece
– Flat Holm Island, Wales
– Unawatuna, Sri Lanka
– Monreale, Sicily

Images by: Alan Godfrey, Barth Bailey, Igor Ovsyannykov, John Fowler, Michal Galezewski, John Peters, Sebastian Unrau and Torsten Dederichs via Unsplash.