Environments (album series)

Environments (stylized in all lowercase) is a series of LPs, cassettes, 8-track cartridges and CDs created by producer and sound recordist Irv Teibel (1938–2010[1]) for Syntonic Research Inc. between 1969 and 1979.

The series consists of recordings of natural sounds such as a seashore with crashing waves or a thunderstorm with falling rain, without musical accompaniment.

The series helped ignite a worldwide interest in field recordings which resulted in many imitations being released throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s both with, and without, music.

The sounds of a spontaneous gathering in Central Park, April 6, 1969, with strolling musicians, dancers, anti-war protesters, and fragments of conversations.

A warm summer night (recorded August 1970) deep in the backwoods of Eastern Pennsylvania, surrounded by insects and the occasional distant hound.

Accessible only by airboat, Georgia's verdant wetlands are home to thousands of species both large and small, including growling alligators.

[4] [better source needed] Creaking boards, straining lines, and a taut canvas recorded aboard a 42-foot sloop under full sail.

A small meandering stream near Stockbridge, Massachusetts, with insects, birds and the sound of water flowing over rocks.

A quiet afternoon of insects and birds gradually gives way to distant thunder, approaching rain squalls, and then a full-on rainstorm.