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uncommon ambience

Ambient noise podcast. White noise, gray noise, machine noise, fans, ambient movie homages, and nature. This is a place for folks who want to listen to something without a narrative, news, or exciting new material from Nas. Ignore the world.

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08:00:00

Rest Stop Rapture—highway motel in a thunderstorm at...

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2025/09/20

Rainy Night/ Highway Motel — spend a mid-90s motel overnight perched above a highway during a thunderstorm. So after graduating from military boarding school, I faced a nearly thousand-mile drive from deep in the Southeast to the Hudson Valley in New York. I believe we stopped to rest somewhere near Frackville, PA. It was late, and the skies were awash with rain and flashes of lightning. My father was exhausted, and he was almost immediately asleep after tossing the dust cover off the bed.My heart

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08:00:00

"IT Person! Over here!" — You've been served with...

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2025/09/13

Missing the server room? Need someone to help with an offline printer? Spend eight hours among your favorite overly refrigerated colleagues.Have you ever noticed how IT folks walk around with waiter eyes when they're outside their domain? You know, waiter eyes, like when you need a refill on your Mountain Dew and the dude or lady catches you in their peripheral… but just keeps walking?And I get it. It’s lucky the people who make printers didn’t make Voyager, we’d have lost Voyager by the

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08:00:00

Rainy Road to Reflect or Ruminate… Ambience

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2025/09/06

Sparse highway, light rain ambience. We are on the side of a small road just outside town. It’s night, and it’s raining. Imagine you’re a content Gene Kelly walking home after frolicking around main. Or Feel free to ruminate. That’s the general vibe around here. There’s a movie theater nearby showing cat videos (for a good cause) and it’s practically sold out. Catvideofest 2025 is repackaged cat timeline videos on a gigantic screen. And that it is pretty much sold out this weekend says something

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08:00:00

Oh, My Neo Pleasant Purgatory… Ambience

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2025/08/30

Digital Purgatory — Neo-noir-ish but chill purgatory ambience, I was thinking of a modern island of Purgatorio mashed with the Heavenly Kid and “Neo Bowser City.” Imagine taking a break on one of the rings as folks move about you, working out the flaws of their souls. And why purgatory? Global calamities have had me thinking more about the Inferno, and as summer loosens its grasp upon us and the morning chills of fall hint at the spooky season… It’s hard not to watch the television and be like, “I

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02:30:00

A Dying Summer’s Suburban Slumber (part 2)... Ambience

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2025/08/23

Evening pool aerator/ lawn mowing/ bugs ambience. This recording plays in three acts, the first bit is all mowing, then mostly pool aerator and birds, then a curtain of night insects descend.The kids are back in school, and our local department store has already put up Jack-o’-lanterns. Summer is over — dead. I found eggnog at the grocery store. The bugs you hear are just one frost from calling it an existence. It’s time to recapture the sounds of late summer (to maybe revisit during hollow,

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00:40:00

Thursday Thunder in the Thunderstorm Recording...

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2025/08/16

I was in the middle of folding my laundry when I heard a crackle of thunder — so I grabbed my microphone and ran out to the shed, pressed record, and dashed back to the house. My watch congratulated me for hitting my move goal.My whole young life I had been naive to calamity, feeling the universe must revolve around me and thus of course I would be some famous screenwriter with a sports car and a mansion with like fifty hot tubs (hot tubs always being my barometer for success — ever since that

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01:00:00

New River Gorge at Sandstone Falls (plus trains)…...

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2025/08/09

We're back in Appalachia! This recording captures about an hour on the banks of the New River in the southeastern part of West Virginia’s pan — you can call it a pan right? When I lived in Jefferson County folks to the west called us panhandlers.You’ll hear Sandstone Falls, the calls of local birds and insects, and a couple of trains rumbling by (midway and end).This week’s episode was recorded by regular uncommon ambience contributor Dr. April Blakeslee (who is a researcher and associate professor

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00:35:00

LOST EPISODE: Microphone Inside Domed Grill During a...

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2025/08/03

“Look hon! I’m using the grill.” This is a thunderstorm recording from under the dome of my (Weber Original) grill. The grill she gifted me on Father’s Day and I promptly pushed to the back corner of our yard because I am terrible at it. Not as bad as the turkey scenes in Christmas Vacation, but close enough. The charred pieces are claimed by my wife (who likes overdone) and the rarer pieces get cut and passed to me (who only likes it that way) and the rest is disseminated amongst the kids.Do I lose

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08:00:00

For those Over-Watching Kpop Demon Hunters, have a...

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2025/07/30

Spend the night inside a soda machine. Think cold, refreshing thoughts — and dodge that audio-hyperglycemic earworm.My youngest is all about the Saja Boys and “Soda Pop” is her song of the summer. Alexa even recognizes what she means when she’s like “Alexa, play 'Soda Pop.'” Alexa isn’t playing Robbie Williams. [Unearned quippy banter line, “has anyone seen the monkey movie?”] Our house is filled with the animated band’s sugary suite ode to everyone’s favorite carbonated corn syrup water

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08:00:00

I'm a Fan of Fan; MD B&B Bathroom Fan... Ambience

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2025/07/24

Bed and Breakfast Bathroom Fan Ambience … This is the bathroom fan from our room in a quaint B&B near Antietam. Last week’s recording from the woods was from their property —thank you, Antietam Overlook Farm!I have some more summer sounds on the way next week, but I wanted a fan break… We haven’t had a fan episode in awhile and as I’ve said before, “I’m a fan of fan” in Devil’s Advocate Al Pacino. Gawd I love that line, any time someone is screaming something I am so in — my idea of funny is

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04:30:00

Overnight Appalachia Atop Antietam ... Ambience

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2025/07/21

Mountain forest late night into early morning Eld Ridge (10pm-2am), overlooking the Battlefields of Antietam.A few days late this week as I was at the final Wu-Tang New York City show and then a stay near Antietam for my wife’s birthday (Happy birthday, hon!). My Wu-review contact-high influenced (no one tell my mom) and punctuative-free bluesky-cap is here (and give us a follow). Special thanks to my bff for inviting me along, the experience was transcendent (Big Daddy Kane showed up!).Also I

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00:53:00

Ride the Ferry to Martha's Vineyard... Ambience

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2025/07/10

Ferry carport parking and sail ambience... Park your hooptie and get ready to sail across the sound to Vineyard Haven. The Steamship Authority has come a long way since its pre-2K promise of, “Get in the standby line before noon, and you’ll get on a boat to the Vineyard at some point today.” I often wonder: who was the madman behind that carmageddon inducing promise?If you’ve been anywhere near Bourne, MA, in the summertime especially Friday rush, you know how much folks love their Cape Cod and

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01:30:00

Appledore Island Birds and Scientists and Buoy......

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2025/07/05

So there's a rocky island off the coast of Maine that looks like Ireland in miniature. The island stands a few hundred feet from an⁠ infamous axe murder site⁠. And there are no cheap t-shirts or fudge joints (although I hear you can get Ice Cream a few islands over); this is a place where science is happening. The gull’s mate here during the summer months and the island becomes a battlefield for gull territory maintenance.My sister, Dr April Blakeslee, is a faculty member at the Shoals Marine

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07:00:00

Martha's Vineyard; Nature's Yacht Rock... Ambience

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2025/06/28

Listen to the sounds of waves, the birds, sparse Beach Rd traffic, ferry and other nautical stuff from 11pm until dawn. The recording took place on a harbor beach, a few stone skips from the Black Dog Tavern (and you will find the perfect skipping stones down at the water's edge).Let the waves calm you. Let your stress go the way I’m trying to let it go after experiencing my first time time trying to use the insurance I paid extra for at the Dick’s Sporting Goods for a bike. I remember all of

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08:00:00

2025 Cape Cod Cicadas … Ambience

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2025/06/22

Back from a well needed North-East holiday break. I had inadvertently stumbled upon what local papers are calling “The Great Cape Cod Cicada Comeback!” That's right cicadas have emerged.And the voices (is it their voices making the noise or legs I have no idea) you are hearing were living in the ground for 17 years. So this journey for the Cape Cod cicadas began around the time “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay was #1 and Ed Norton was Bruce Banner.

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08:00:00

Rain with Feeling! and a Marimba... Ambience

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2025/06/14

Rain in car, plus: wipers, marimba and a pipa. "It's rain with feeling!" Look; I've been working on a new "At the..." ambience, that I wanted to release this week, but it's about a fictional dystopian California crime... And there's probably enough dystopia to go around fictional or otherwise. So... audible... the football audible not the books on tape for your phone Audible. Gawd, speaking of which... there was always that button on Playstation I would

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00:30:00

May 29th Evening Thunderstorm... Ambience

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2025/06/02

May 29th Thunderstorm in the Mid-Atlantic Thunderstorm — Anyone could use a mostly mild half-hour thunderstorm. Turn it on and think about cheese; or the worst salad dressing you ever had.

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02:19:40

Urban-ish Morning Bird Chatter… Ambience

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2025/05/28

Early morning (3-6am) bird chatter ambience — So I live in a metropolitan area within a town next to a highway… Actually let me start a different way; what we perceive individually as silence, is nowhere near reality. I’ve learned this having stupidly rushed to interesting natural sound-makers like brooks and falls, only to realize later these sound-maker’s proximity to vehicular traffic, tarnished my recordings.When I recorded in the Mad River Valley (Vt) last year I found a few stunning waterfalls

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08:00:00

Go Ahead and Chase Waterfalls... Ambience

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2025/05/24

Waterfall, pink noise, ambience. Go ahead and chase waterfalls for eight hours, you may feel better. You may feel better if — is irregardless a legit word? I had beans for breakfast.

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08:00:00

Kitchen Dinner after Helicopter Attack; Godfather...

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2025/05/17

Godfather 3 stormy kitchen ambience — “Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In!” We’re back at the movies and in a kitchen after a bloody helicopter attack. It’s stormy, and dinner is happening, and everything feels tense because everyone almost just died (this scene).I am a Godfather 3 apologist. Aside from how awesome the sound design is in this and the other trilogy films, I love the exploration of a man who tries to emancipate himself from his own cruel and ruthless past. Especially

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