Dear reader, how do you sleep at night? That wasn’t an accusatory rhetorical question, I’m just wondering what helps you nod off. If you’re tired of the usual suspects – trickling streams, whale noises, birdsong – from standard sleep apps, then head over to Cheesy Nirvosa’s YouTube channel for something decidedly different.
Cheesy composes “longform space and sci-fi ambience” and I’m here for it. These tracks range from one to 12 hours long and most are inspired by, or even sample, classic sci-fi movies. There’s one of the sandworms from Dune on a loop, which sounds like a terrifying choice for drifting off to sleep but is actually a relaxing kind of white noise.
Check out the one sampling sound on board USS Defiant (Star Trek: Deep Space 9) or perhaps you fancy a TIE fighter sound from Star Wars because you don’t mind experiencing low-level anxiety. But here’s one for the real geeks: The Deep Wind of Mars is 12 hours of ambient soundscape using actual NASA audio.
“This sound was put together by smoothing out a sample from one that NASA recorded on the surface of Mars. It has been deepened quite a bit so it is not nearly as scratchy as it was when recorded but no other sounds have been added to it,” he explains.
