Seed #8882 is one entry in the Calming Melodies pillar of Calm Sound Archive. It is generated in the browser with the Web Audio API, so nothing is streamed and nothing is downloaded: the same seed number always produces the same piece of audio.
What you are hearing
Karplus-Strong plucked strings: a short noise burst circulates through a delay line, producing a harp-like tone whose brightness is set by the damping factor.
The musical material uses Japanese Hirajoshi at 53 BPM, tuned to 639 Hz. A binaural offset of 6.3 Hz separates the left and right channels slightly, which is what gives the track its width on headphones.
When to use it
Use it in the background while working or reading, at a volume where you stop noticing it after a few minutes. This seed leans toward cozy reading and runs at 53 BPM, so it moves slowly enough to sit under conversation or sleep.
Technical parameters
| Seed | #8882 |
|---|---|
| Pillar | Calming Melodies |
| Instrument | Celtic Harp |
| Layer | Bookstore Corner |
| Engine | Pastoral Celtic Harp |
| Scale | Japanese Hirajoshi |
| Tempo | 53 BPM |
| Tuning | 639 Hz |
| Binaural offset | 6.3 Hz |
| Filter ceiling | 1957 Hz |
How to listen
- Press play and choose a session length between five minutes and eight hours.
- Headphones give the binaural layer room to work; speakers still play the track but flatten the stereo image.
- Keep the volume where you can still hear the room. The fade-out at the end of a session is ten seconds, not a hard stop.