>this article makes me think about hooking up some microphones in the woods and catching the progression of birds into frogs into rain sounds into birds that ha

>this article makes me think about hooking up some microphones in the woods and catching the progression of birds into frogs into rain sounds into birds that happens every night...and you could have a new "episode" every day. I absolutely would listen to that nearly every work day. Pre-pandemic, I would use 'Forrest Bathing' YT channels mixed in with my favorite music while in the office. The longer the sample of ambient sounds, the better, as I wouldn't have to pause or restart the video. I've kept this up since WFH started. After months of daily listening, I found that a lot of 'Forrest Bathing' channels would use soundboards, would loop an hour long sample for 10+ hours, would splice in other samples from other places (I could tell from the bird species' calls), etc. The authentic, 10+ hour long, sampled from a single spot, aurally interesting, no edits, no soundboards, 'Forrest Bathing' videos are very rare [0] and I wish there would be more of them. The key would be to find aurally interesting areas around you. I've found that the fauna tend to be most active crepuscularly, meaning that the middle of the video can be a bit boring, especially for night videos. Day videos can have animal husbandry to fill in the gaps during mid-day. Part of the allure of the videos is the 'romance' of the associated visual components. If you can set a video camera up along with the high quality audio, that's just golden. Even though I'm almost never looking at the video, just knowing that I am actually listening to the real sounds of the Yukon, or the Amafi Coast, or a small English hedge, etc, it really makes it for me and makes me feel like that small little box I'm in isn't so bad, that I am actually traveling the world a bit still, that my life is richer and more 'real' in some small way. [0] I've found a few channels, and even then, the 'good' videos are very few. Yes, I am super picky with this, I can't help it.