The 100th (and 101st) Ambiences

The truth is, I've seen this day coming for quite a while. Some of you have too. In fact, I've been getting a lot of questions on Twitter and Facebook asking me what kind of special to-do I was going to make when my 100th 10 minute ambience was released. I slowly started to dawn on my that I was a bit intimidated by the pressure! Should I pull out all the stops and make the "Epicest Epic Ambience of All Time™"? Or totally downplay it and make a 10 minute sound of a dripping faucet, the perfect background for games of "Things I don't want to do on a Saturday".

Well, I decided to do a volcano themed ambience next. Not for any special significance, but for two reasons. One, it was on The List, and two, because I'd recently made a pot of oatmeal for the kids and, as it cooked and bubbled away, I thought it sounded pretty cool. Naturally I grabbed a recorder and a microphone and collected some sounds. Come to think of it,  I now regret not having a photo of me making oatmeal, wearing headphones,  holding a mic in one hand and a spoon in the other. The oatmeal turned out great by the way. 

So I worked on "Volcano" last week and was all ready to release it into the wild and then I thought, I think maybe I'll celebrate 100 by starting work on 101. That way 100 won't seem so much like a goal that's been achieved, but more like a signpost along a highway...

"Highway". Hmm, that's actually a pretty good idea.

Ambience number 101, finished yesterday, is called "Highway".  It's busy and lonely at the same time. You're not in a car. Maybe yours broke down, or maybe you never had one. It's probably night. It's definitely Lynchian.

This highway is not anywhere in particular. It's just a highway. It's between. That's what highways are. Between places, between time, between people, between everything else in your life. There's music, but it's 'between' music. It's interstitial, just like the road.

As of this post, there is now over 16 hours of audio (not including SoundPads) on tabletopaudio.com . We passed the millionth play/download for 2016 back in August, ahead of the previous year. I'm looking forward to making more. Hope you guys stick along for the ride.

Thanks, as ever, for your support.

-Tim