Wall clock
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Wall Clock is a relative of the previous track at a different scale: the ticking of a large wall mechanism (chronograph, cuckoo or a classic pendulum wall clock), with a long resonant doom-dam in the 200 to 600 Hz range instead of the purely high-frequency tick-tock of a wristwatch. Tempo is noticeably slower (typically 0.5 to 1 Hz, one strike every one to two seconds) and the volume higher, about 50 to 60 dB. Sometimes there's a soft chime every half hour.
This type of clock carries a deeper cultural load than a wristwatch. In traditional European homes wall clocks have been the central time-organisers for centuries, and a pendulum sound is firmly associated with the old house, father's study or grandmother's parlour. Psychologically this creates a strong safe-ordered-space effect. Levitin in This Is Your Brain on Music (2006) described it as episodic anchoring through sound environment: listening to familiar sound patterns partially restores the emotional colouring of events experienced in their presence.
Use this track for writing family, historical and psychological prose (Tolstoy, Mann, Sebald), for podcasts about family values and home life, for going-home meditation, for emigrants who feel nostalgia, and for deep slow falling asleep. Pairs with Ticking Clock (the faster relative), Rain on Windowsill and Cozy Fireplace. An excellent sleep sound, thanks to the low register and slow rhythm.
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ReduxSound v1.0.0
Ambient sound mixer for relaxation and focus