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iām incredibly sensitive to external stimuli, especially noise (which I find a little funny because iām a musician and surrounded by noise all the time) .Brown noise is a less harsh version of white noise and I find it much more calming to listen to.I play it quietly every night to sleep. Living in the city it helps to drown out all the weird chatter, chirping birds, car screeches, and cat fights. Or when Iām back home visiting family in Atlanta, where it tends to feel too quiet at night, it adds a nice cushion of noise to an overly dead room.Another big use for me is when iām overstimulated or anxious. On tour, I play it in my noise canceling headphones on long drives while I sleep or read to block out any talking and music. I also listen while I get ready before going on stage so I can focus on just what I need to do instead of getting distracted by what everyone else was doing around me
Sep 11, 2023
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I feel like it sucks you out of the world. Thereās a 12 hr long brown noise track on Spotify I listen to. Itās one of the best things Iāve discovered, especially on tour. It made me realize Iām kind of sensitive to noise and the brown noise helps with anxiety specifically associated with traveling.
Jan 7, 2025
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New York is so noisy and so are my thoughts. Iām super into putting a white noise machine on to go to sleep or when I need some privacy from the outside world. I also love using the white noise generator from my synth to add gratuitous bleeps and bloops on our songs.
Mar 10, 2023
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For a lot of these like the driving/walking/train can ones I also like to play them in my field of view and keep my eyes trained on them while I work it really helps me lock inā¦
* Miracle Forest ASMR ambience
* Driving in rain
* Walking in the rain in Boston, MA with binaural rain on umbrella sounds
* Train cab ride videos (any of them)
* Sometimes if Iām having a really tough time focusing I will play this awful Muzak-core video in the Christmas season itās so flatly unenjoyable as music that it helps me shut off my brain and do what I need to do
* Brown noise
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The first professional tattoo I ever got was the Elephant from the album cover of The Glow Pt. 2 on my right calf (secretly done in bushwick on a family trip to new york when I was a senior in high school)I found this album in my sophomore year of highschool and it was the closest thing I have felt to a spiritual awakening. Itās raw, experimental, beautiful, and deeply vulnerable. It has been a key inspiration to a lot of my art and music since I was 16.
Sep 11, 2023
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Iāve been obsessed with video games since I was aĀ small, teeny, little baby . My favorite kinds of games are open world and the really repetitive, calming, grindey ones, and Stardew falls under both.Ā Iāve put over 300 hours of my life into this game and played it obsessively when we were recording my bandās EP āThe Gaping Mouthā.At first, the game seems pretty simple. You have your farm that you tend to next to a town full of different npcās, but the more time you sink in, you realize thereās a lot of depth to the characters, and many different areas and secrets to the game. Thereās mining, fighting monsters, mysteries, a few secretly profound lines of dialogue and some really dark but real story lines for some characters.
Sep 11, 2023
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I was put onto this show the first time I lived in London by our friend and Engineer for the last two Lowertown projects, Joseph.Ā Itās about two fucked up 30 yr olds living in London who are shit people in different ways. They destroy each otherās lives but also need each other to fill the painful, all consuming loneliness.Ā itās relatable, disgusting, existential, yet very light hearted and completely hilarious.It has become my all time comfort show, and Iāve seen all 9 seasons in their entirety an upwards of 5 or 6 times.
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