Discovery: 8D Ambient Sci Fi Music For Relaxation
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- čas přidán 19. 11. 2023
- There has been a lot of talk recently about “8D” music and audio. I want to offer some insight because I want people to be informed, enjoy music and not get swept away by hyped terms. In music production we typically have two audio signals (left and right) like headphones because we have two ears. This allows us to place elements anywhere from left to right to give music sonic width and enhance the quality of the music. What has become “8D audio” is actually called 3D audio and has existed for quite some time. I’ve seen 4D used and not sure what happened to 5, 6 and 7 or why someone decided to jump to 8. The three dimensions are left/right, up/down, front/behind (ie. the three dimensions in which we all exist). Using a number of techniques and different types of audio FX/software, the other two dimensions can be simulated, essentially tricking your ears into thinking that your left/right headphones are actually a surround sound experience. When you listen to “8D” music on headphones you can notice things seemingly swirling around you, as though you are being surrounded by the music itself, creating a very immersive experience. These are similar techniques used in Spatial Audio in video games and it is awesome! However, the term “8D” doesn’t mean anything because we don’t experience more than three dimensions. I am in no way discouraging creators from using the term, in fact I will be using it as well in my video titles since it’s the current term and I want people to find my videos who are looking for that specific experience. I just don’t believe that people should be led by mysterious popular words thinking they are experiencing something they aren’t. I sincerely hope you enjoy this 3D (8D) music and please let me know what you think in the comments!
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Welcome to Futurescapes! Please read the description for some of my thoughts and let me know what you think of this 8D (3D) video! 🙂
There are a TON of videos like this on youtube, some are alright, most are bad... and the rare one is REALLY good. This is the latter.
Haha thank you! There are definitely a lot and I hope to offer something special and unique :)
It's all a matter of personal taste
That low bass scratches some kind of itch in my brain.
This is some of the very best ambient music I've heard in many years. The art is also excellent.
i like it. gives me metroid prime vibes
Love the channel. This video especially is my favorite. Keep it going.
Thank you!
that track is nice!
but arrival is my favorite) more tracks like this man!
Good to know! I really like Arrival too :)
lovely work!! im getting love on train by tangerine vibes with some generation zero / simon stalenhag with the overall feeling, really well done piece mate :)
Thanks so much! I love those comparisons :) Stalenhag is definitely an inspiration for a lot of my visuals haha glad you like it!
This is great and makes my mind jump right into an open-world video game like Fallout. Keep those vibes coming!
No comment, thank for the work
You’re welcome! Thanks for listening!
Very good, very nice. Normally I only watch one channel for my ambient soundscapes, but you've got yourself another subscriber!
Thank you!
Your channel has the best study audio. I am a sci fi geek and it just hits well. Synth stuff all of it.
Awesome! Glad you are enjoying it :)
I'm a Sci fi geek too
Once again! You never cease to amaze me! Thank you for the 8D experience. I love the song as well as the art! It really pulls me in and I am also inspired thank YOU!!
That's so good to hear, thank you!
@@Futurescapes-SciFiAmbience You are welcome 😁
I really liked it. Beautiful atmosphere. Cool Bass line.
splendid!
Thanks!
great explanation in the description
That sound like the truth much love 💗 peace ☮️ out
Thanks!
Careful dude, that thing looks hungry! Lovely music, but I get the feeling it's meant to lull him into a sense of false security.
Could be! Haha
I like to think of it as a rural community's "disco-teq" getaway for dance parties and raves in a fancy structure as if they were living in the "big city". But maybe you're right and it's a mechanical "Jean Jacket" creature that consumes large mammals by luring them to what it deceptively portrays as a fun party space.
I love this! ❤️ just started making my own but no where near this good yet. Great work
Thanks! And welcome to the ambient community!
This is great. I like the positive vibes. We need more positive ambience, not just dark but light. This is a step in the right direction. Discovery is a hopeful thing ingrained in all of us. We need some pioneers in light ambience space/sci fi music. I can't find any hahah
Thanks, glad you like it! There are some positive sci fi artists but not many. I like the theme of space for that. Even if it’s dark it still has elements of beauty and wonder :)
Also check out video game ambience if you haven’t. There’s a channel called Gaming Ambience, they do a lot of Mirror’s Edge videos that are perfect for futuristic light ambience that’s still cool and inspiring :)
Best Space Dreams !
Cool
Divine. Extraordinari. Suprime.
Thank you!
The 8d thing is awesome. Theres a short video with audio of a dinosaur walking around you and with my bose system and my beats headphones i can hear it the whole way around.
That's awesome! I love where technology is heading, being able to watch movies on headphones with simulated surround sound and stuff like that. So fun!
Great track, my man. Another exquisite, thrumming venture into a world yet to be. 'Rounding a wet, scrap-filled outcropping, he stopped slack jawed looking at it... a massive network of steel, power lines, servos, and data banks. It was the same machine from his dreams, as if it had finally taken a step from thought into reality. Scanlines bathed him from sensors above and he somehow knew that he was home.'
I love that! Almost like this is a secret place where he was actually born but never knew about, been living in regular society this whole time not knowing of his origin. Glad you like it and thanks again for all your support!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Brett! Much to be grateful for!@@Futurescapes-SciFiAmbience
Indeed! Happy Thanksgiving to you too and your family! :)
I'll respond to your emails soon by the way! haha just busy and want to reply well :)
No worries and no pressure, my man. I certainly understand the busyness of life. I never intended to add to that - ha! :O)@@Futurescapes-SciFiAmbience
I think I am seeing a whole new genre - Canadian Noir 😮
Yes! I’ve had that thought since I am Canadian, want to get some northern Canada settings in the visuals :)
@@Futurescapes-SciFiAmbience The beautiful Canadian landscapes, but something not right...
- alien artifacts?
- wet?
- dark?
Possibilities limited only by imagination
👍🙏👍
- isolated?
...
It looks so much like "Borderlands", and "Journey to the Savage Planet" but without the Dessert.
Dimensionality can be quite abstract, from a scientific/mathematic perspective. For example: Time is unequivocally a physical dimension (hence the term "spacetime"). Since music inherently changes with time, has a beginning and an end; music by default can be measured in the time dimension.
We can go a bit more abstract, too: Pitch and volume are easy dimensions we can extend our musical measurements into. This means that even "mono" music (as opposed to "stereo") already exists in three dimensions: Time, pitch, and volume.
Throw in the three spatial dimensions and we're up to 6D music. I'm no musician, but you can probably quantify a couple more dimensions here (for example, you might quantify shape of the audio 'waveform' - that's at *least* one number) and thus get all the way to 8D music.
Anyways, cool track, made for a nice background tune for my debugging adventures.
Interesting perspective and thoughts! I totally see where you're going with that, I just don't think the average person thinks that deeply haha but by what you're saying you could include timbral shifts and emotional shifts as musical dimensions to be experienced. I still think "8D" is a bit of a hype/trend thing with a lack of meaning and intentionality, but I like your interpretation of it :)
Also, glad you liked the track for debugging!
I love background images used in videos like this. Does anyone know where i can get that kind of images?
Thanks! My images are available along with the music tracks at futurescapes-scifiambience.bandcamp.com , you can generate these kinds of images with generation tools like Midjourney (you just need to learn the prompting system well to get what you want), and Artstation is always the best place to go for these kinds of images from actual artists :)
He needs a bigger back pack for sure. I don't know what that thing is But PINK?? Now that's an interesting concept. Looks to me like it belongs on the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Don't think even Megalodon would mess with this thing. Just an observation.
Totally! Pink and colourful, yet frightening and mysterious :)
I would play this video game.
Me too!
A cube has 8 corners, if the listener is in the centre, you'd need 8 sound sources to achieve 3d hence 8D?
Well 8 sound sources would simply be surround sound. If there was a sub woofer that would be noted as “8.1 surround”. 3d (and 8d) is using digital techniques to simulate a surround sound environment but still using 2 sound sources (headphones)
Lol I love the takedown on the term "8D" in your video description. Such a silly term 🙄
Haha glad you like it, I agree!
More rain sounds! Blah so boring almost everyone puts rain sounds in ambient music and its sooooo boring and unoriginal. There is more to life and ambient than rain sounds.
Haha you should look up why rain sounds are used a lot in ambient/relaxation. A lot of people love it and it has great benefits. Sall good if you don’t prefer it though, most of my videos don’t have rain sounds :)