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By Naturespace · 9 reviews ·
10月10日、東へとゆるやかに延びるシングルトラックを6マイルほど進んだあたり。ほんの15分前まで、空はあたたかな午後の光に満ちた澄みきった青でした。ところが数分のうちに寒気が通り抜け、雨の匂いを含んだ空気が流れ込みます。私たちは引き返し、つい先ほど通り過ぎた小さな東屋へ。タイミングは申し分ありませんでした。 土砂降りに足止めされることには、不思議な気楽さがあります。ただ座って、やむのを待つしかないという時間。街で暮らしていると、こうして雨に閉じ込められることはあまりありません。せいぜい車から家までのあいだに少し濡れるくらいです。けれど野外、とりわけ山では、ほとんど毎日のように起こります。そのたびに、（できれば）乾いた場所を見つけて腰を下ろし、水がめぐるその営みをただ眺めることになる。雨は生命。自然が主で、ただここにいる。 壁のない屋根だけのつくりが、このトラックに独特の響きをもたらしています。音の多くは中距離から遠くで生まれ、耳元に雨粒が落ちてこないぶん、全体はやわらかく、アンビエントに広がる。屋根に守られている気配や、縁を伝って落ちる雨が水たまりへ注ぐ様子も感じられるでしょう。地面はみるみる水を含み、すぐに飽和していきます。 さらに、乾いた地面に雨が一気に訪れる降り出しと、空気がすっと冷えていく過程も、この録音の個性です。音は空気を伝わるため、その温度の移ろいが響きにもにじみ、気温が下がっていく気配さえ感じられます。全体は終始おだやかで、気を散らすものがないため、学習や作業に向き合うときや、眠りのための環境音としても自然に寄り添います。ヘッドホンでは、とりわけ広い空間が立ち上がります。
What listeners say
Kudos to the NatureSpace team for this one! I love the sound of the rain in this track ... it reminds me of the sound of rain here in the country ... how it's falling off the roof and pooling on the ground. When we get rain like this during the warm months, I love to have the windows wide open so I can hear the water run off the roof and pool on the gravel driveway and make puddles in the grass. Unfortunately, once the rain starts, we are forced to close the windows to keep the rain from getting in the house and causing damage, so I thank you for the dry experience.. When listening to this track at a low volume, the rain sounds soft and steady; turn up the volume, and the raindrops sound large and saturating, drenching everything in its path. Love this!
Love this track! Takes me back to my days stationed at Fort Lewis, WA and the constant rain during field exercises. The only shelter, a rickety, leaky, old shack, probably built in WWII! I would drift off in that shack and find peace in the rain. Forgetting the horrors of my deployments and reveling in the peaceful cleansing of the rain. Thank you NatureSpace! I can find that peace again in this wonderfully recorded track!
令人平靜的雨聲，現實感很強。適合學習及睡覺時播放。
The rain track I have been looking for. What a vivid yet non-intrusive sound space! At low volume levels it is the perfect white noise for reading or browsing the web without audible distractions to jerk you out of your train of thought. At slightly louder levels, it is perfect for closing your eyes and getting lost in the shelter in the forest. Love it!!
The soothing sound of falling rain is a favorite of mine for reading, relaxing, and sleeping. Cloudburst is a welcome addition to my Naturespace rain tracks, because it's unlike any of the others that I own. Cloudburst is a steady rain with no distractions and it falls somewhere between Eternal Reign (more gentle) and Soft Forest Rain (more dynamic). Highly recommend!!
This was recorded on my birthday! I love the sound of rain. Being deployed someplace where the average yearly rainfall is less than four inches, I deeply miss the sound of rain. This is PERFECT when relaxing in the evenings and when falling asleep.
This is my favorite rain track since Liquid Sunshine. This one's a lot wetter overall - a steady downpour in a deciduous forest. There is a quality of big, fat raindrops hitting a layered canopy of leaves. The picture is perfect because it does remind me of a rainstorm in early fall, when there are still some leaves on the trees. Sometimes there is a faint rumbling suggesting distant thunder, but its very faint. This does have a strong sense of multilayered space.
I have many of Naturespace's rain and storm tracks, but in just a few days of owning Cloudburst it's become one of my favorites. It's a very steady rain with gentle backdrop of water on leaves and the forest floor. It does have a sense of cooling off, as the description suggests. It is subtly dynamic but not distracting. I especially love it over headphones as an ambience for studying at home. It's not as strong at masking external sounds as other tracks, but does help draw my attention away from sounds in the environment. Thanks for another great track!
This is a what I would call a softer version of "soft forest rain". It's a nice, steady rain which makes for good background noise. I didn't notice much detail change throughout, so if you're looking for an experience like that, there's plenty of great tracks on here. Still an enjoyable track! Thanks Naturespace!