Well, I've been looking through the free jungle ambiences at Soundsnap lately; but so far I haven't found anything that sounds alien enough yet. I mean, we've heard these noises before on Nature, you know? I think we might just have to assemble our own ambience out of individual sounds. Which brings up some interesting questions: how do we describe the outdoor feel of the Age? Okay, so we've often said the garden would be peaceful and soothing. What else, a slight hint of Japanese around the area of the pavilion?
1. Peaceful
2. Soothing
3. Japanese (by the pavilion)?
Then, there's the fact that most of the jungle ambience I've heard doesn't match peaceful and soothing very well. It sounds more like, hmm...
1. Alive
2. Teeming
3. Exotic
4. Wild
5. Dangerous
6. Loud
7. Strange
8. Jurassic Park?
Is our jungle going to sound different from that? Or if not, then how do we reconcile the jungle ambience with the peaceful garden ambience? Shall we try for a forest ambience instead of an actual jungle ambience?
And here are the ambiences I've been listening to on Soundsnap, if you're interested:
http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/jungle+ambience/score?page=1