Synthesizer workstations can look like the inside of NASA command modules for spaceflights, so it makes perfect sense that a synthesizer session could be used to create an ersatz field recording of an orbital space station. Such “space ambience,” or satellite ASMR, is heard here as an array of clanking and voices and beeps and signals, and an overall metallic reverberance that lends the whole thing a sense of place. It’s the work of a musician who goes by BRiES, and this piece is one of seven tracks that make up a recent album, simply titled binaural, which emphasizes the spaciousness, the space-ness, of the work. BRiES writes of the recordings: “The tracks are an effort to create realistic sounding ambiences with binaural beats and music mixed in.” There’s also a recognition that work like this can have utility: “The album can be used as a masking tool in loud environments, for relaxation or even to fall asleep to.”
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BRiES is based in Sint-Gillis-Waas, Belgium.