Relaxing Music
Things to play in the background to relax as you work.
Soundscapes
Here are various links to free online sound sources that can help you relax.
- Rainy Mood
- If you find the sound of rain relaxing, then you might enjoy this online rain sound generator.
- Calmsound
- There are many relaxing soundscapes from various types of places here, such as the ocean, the rainforest, and even Antarctica!
- myNoise.net
- An enormous collection of soundscapes.
Music Databases
- Bloomsbury Popular Music This link opens in a new windowON-CAMPUS users must login with hawkID and password. An invaluable resource for a broad range of Arts and Humanities subjects, Bloomsbury Popular Music provides comprehensive and authoritative information about all genres of popular music worldwide, from the early 20th century to the present day
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowNaxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. There is an app available for iOS and Android, to log in follow the instructions for Student/Faculty at a subscribing institution: How to access the Mobile App
Lo-fi/Jazz/Ambient Music
Audio Drama Databases
- Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection This link opens in a new windowMore than three hundred important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays - which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.
