Immersive 3D nature sounds
Surroundscapes turns real natural sound into immersive listening environments for everyday life. Press play while you read, work, study, or drift off.
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9 million+ streams across Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube
3D sound
Virtual reality for your ears.
Our innovative 3D sound puts you inside real natural landscapes, where you can hear sound from every direction: rain overhead, thunder rolling in behind you, a creek running at your feet. No special equipment needed, just the headphones you already own.
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Normal audio squeezes everything onto a line between your ears.
3D sound captures a place the way your ears hear it, so every sound stays where it is: near, far, beside or behind you.
Put on headphones, press play, then move the slider.
Rain & Thunder
Rain and thunder in the open, with nothing between you and the storm.
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Around the Campfire
A campfire, recorded close enough to hear every crackle.
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A Sequence of Precipitation
Rain on an umbrella, recorded from underneath.
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Random Magnificence
A thunderstorm outside the window, recorded from indoors.
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Preserved exactly as nature played it.
Every album captures a real moment in a real place, in 3D sound. Each track flows seamlessly into the next for one uninterrupted listen, so you can press play once and let it carry you through your work, a study session, or a quiet night in.
Our mission
Natural places are getting harder to hear.
63%
of U.S. protected areas have had their sound levels doubled by human noise. That halves the area where nature can be heard.
21%
have had them raised tenfold or more. That shrinks the area where nature can be heard by 90%.
We record, preserve, and share the true sound of these natural places to give more people a reason to listen closely.
Noise pollution can shrink a landscape. We preserve its sound for generations to come.
Source: Buxton et al., Science, 2017, summarized by The Nature Conservancy.
Surroundscapes Playlists
Playlists worth returning to.
We also craft playlists, carefully curated for moments in your life: falling asleep, reading, studying, making something. Find yours, save it, and press play to listen in the background.
For falling asleep
A storm can keep you company.
Thunderstorms for Sleep
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For reading
Put on the rain. Open your book.
Rain for Reading
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For studying
Put on the rain. Open your notes.
Rain for Studying
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For making something
Let the forest play. Make something.
Sketchbook Time
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Making people forget they’re wearing headphones since 2017.
In 2017, John Taylor Tucker, a Meow Wolf alumnus, created The Tucker Zone, a viral experience told entirely in 3D sound. It has since been heard over a billion times across the internet. Surroundscapes gives that craft a purpose: preserving the sound of natural landscapes and raising awareness for sound conservation.
Partnerships
Let’s surround more people with nature.
Bring nature in 3D sound to your visitors, passengers and customers, through licensing, collaborations and projects built on real recordings.