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Playground is the sound of a typical urban playground at peak hours (after school, on a weekend): laughter, tag-game shouts, swing creak, ball impacts, parents' voices on benches, gravel and sand. This is one of the most emotionally loaded sounds in the urban landscape: for parents it instantly evokes their own children; for non-parents it evokes their own childhood; for the elderly it evokes a whole world that is gone.
Psychologically, children's laughter is fairly well studied. Provine in Laughter: A Scientific Investigation (Penguin, 2000) showed that children's laughter is acoustically different from adults': shorter, higher (around 400 to 600 Hz fundamental), and less phonotactically structured. That is, it carries more raw emotion and less linguistic style. As a result, even in a foreign language children's laughter feels equally warm. Neuroimaging by Sander and Scheich (NeuroReport, 2005) further shows that children's laughter activates in adults the same prefrontal cortex zones that are active when looking at images of one's own children.
Use this track for family video calls (a background that automatically creates a lived-in feel), for writing family prose, for podcasts on parenting, for a return-to-childhood meditation, or for homesickness in those who moved to a city without familiar faces. Pairs with Park Atmosphere, Singing Birds and Light Breeze. Not for deep concentration, since high emotional density pulls attention, and not for sleep, since children's voices are too demanding.
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ReduxSound v1.0.0
Ambient sound mixer for relaxation and focus