Noise Masking

One of our listeners described the sounds outside her apartment: construction work, a nearby highway, flightpaths overhead, and a neighbour with a fondness for death metal!

Yes, we all know life can get noisy. It can be irritating and distracting. Often, it is not the actual loudness of sounds, but their character that is distressing.

In situations like this, you need to take control, and create your own natural, sonic environment.

These albums are both vibrant, and of consistent sonic richness to mask out those ever-present clamours around you.

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A Morning in the Australian Bush

A morning of Australian bush birdsong. Our most popular album.

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A Walk in the Rainforest

The life of Queensland's tropical rainforests - waterfalls, birdsong, frogs, and the soft hum of insects.

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Australia - Natural Soundscapes from an Ancient Land

A sound journey around Australia's unique landscapes and characteristic birds and animals

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Budgerigar Country

Budgerigars, Cockatiels and Pink Cockatoos are heard in this extended, 'single-take' recording from the dry inland of Australia.

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Call of the Ocean

The atmosphere of Australia's wild coastline - beach, surf, rockpools and dune birdsong.

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Cicada Summer

Cicada song - The distinctive sound of an Australian summer.

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Coral Beach

Gentle waves wash ashore on a tropical island, with coral fragments tinkling in the backwash.

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Dawn Chorus: Australia's Inland

A charismatic duet of White-fronted Honeyeaters features in a dawn chorus from the Australian outback.

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Dawn Chorus: Scandinavia

The delicate birdsong of this album evokes the renewel of the European spring.

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Dawn Chorus: Tanzania

Morning Thrushes begin a daybreak of wonderfully rich birdsong from East Africa

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Equatorial Africa - The Forests of Arusha

Colobus monkeys and exotic birdsong are heard in the equatorial forests of Africa's Mt. Meru

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Frogs, Frogs, Frogs!

Frogs - the masters of natural rhythm! This album presents a symphony of talented amphibians from around Australia.

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Highland Rain

A gentle rainstorm soaks the cloudforest in the New Guinea highlands

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Honeyeaters Sing in an Outback Dawn

A complete dawn chorus from Australia's Sturt Desert, featuring a variety of honeyeater voices weaving together

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In a Sheltered Valley

Morning birdsong fills a densely forested valley, while an occasional breeze stirs the treetops.

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Indian Jungle Dawn

A beautiful morning of birdsong unfolds in one of India's rare lowland forests.

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Karri and Jarrah

Flocks of nectar feeding lorikeets and honeyeaters run riot through the tall, flowering forests of southwest Australia.

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Mojave

The Mojave desert comes to life as early morning birdsong carries across the open plains

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Moonlit Pebble Bay

Gentle waves wash into a sheltered bay under a rising moon.

 

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Morning at the Lutownia River

by Izabela Dluzyk. A single-take recording of a morning soundscape made near the Lutownia river in the Bialowieza primeval forest in Poland

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Morning Soundscapes from the Biebrza Marshes

by Izabela Dluzyk. A journey in sound through one of the last untamed river valleys in Europe – the Biebrza in Poland.

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Native Birdsong of New Zealand

Kiwis, Kokakos, Kakas, Kererus, Kakarikis... the wonderous sounds of New Zealand's rare endemic songbirds.

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Rainforest Sanctuary

Immerse yourself in the lush, green world of a tropical rainforest.

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Safari - An African Wildlife Encounter

Lions, hippos, wildebeest, leopard, zebra, impala... get up close with wildlife on the African savannah.

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Sequoia

The drumming of woodpeckers resonates through a grove of massive Sequoias.

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Serra dos Orgaos

By Juan Pablo Culasso. Two dawn choruses, recorded the same morning - one highland, one lowland - in Brazil's Serra dos Órgãos

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Song of the Blackbird

The melodious songs of Blackbirds ring out during a European spring dawn chorus.

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Songbird Virtuosos of Australia

This album highlights extraordinary voices among Australia's songbirds; Kookaburra, Pied Butcherbird, Magpie, Whistler, Bellbird & Lyrebird

 

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Sound Journey to Emajoe-Suursoo

by Veljo Runnel. One of Europe's last truly wild places - the wetlands of Estonia's Emajogi River delta come alive with a fabulous diversity of life in the spri

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Spirit of the Outback

Discover the magic of the living outback. This album contains some of our most evocative recordings.

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