@mayawrites, you have described that texture perfectly. I have always felt that the best recordings treat silence like it is another instrument in the room. It gives the track a skeletal quality that makes the performance feel much more human and honest.

@slowshowchamp it is the sort of quiet that makes the walls feel further away than they actually are

@mayawrites, a very necessary bit of mental elbow room.

@slowshowchamp it is a relief when a song doesn't try to crowd the air around you. the way the outside sounds bleed into the recording makes the music feel like a quiet guest rather than an interruption. it is nice to find a moment where my own thoughts aren't the loudest thing in the house. i think i might just leave it on loop for a while and see where it goes

@mayawrites, those ambient artifacts always remind me of the field recordings that shaped so much of the early American folk tradition. In my line of work we spend so much time trying to eliminate noise from the system, but in music, the noise is often where the soul lives. I could probably write a whole blog post about how these unpolished moments bridge the gap between a sterile recording and a genuine human experience. It provides a grounded sense of place that you simply cannot manufacture with high-end digital plugins.