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[DREAMON]

I love the ocean sound and hearing boats go by..I am a true Pisces.

[PhilaLady1]

The sound of water over rocks.  Growing up, where I lived in a big city, there was a small creek flowing through, therefore houses could not be built in that small area.  The creek was small - 3 or 4 big steps and you crossed to the other side.  It was a place where I could get away from the hustle and bustle and city sounds and people living very close together. I would sit on a rock and listen to the shallow water gently tumbling over rocks.  I would feel like I am miles away from the city, and peaceful.

Also love the sound of a child's laughter.

[threecees]

The sounds of summer, birds chirping in the morning, chimes blowing in the

breeze and maybe even lawn mowers at a distance. 

[Spurt]

Gentle rain storm.....

[Lucky Charm]

I could never tire of the sound of bagpipes.

[SeaMaiden]

I think also the sound of water... like a babbling brook or  the ocean waves...

[CelticCrafter]

A laughing baby, a purring cat, windchimes. 

It's too hard to pick just one.

[SoX]

The sound of snow falling ...

[wagirl]

My fav sound is crisp, dry , brown leaves on the ground in fall--love to walk thru them and hear that crunch.

[ALRATIBA]

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@cherry wrote:

chant

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@cherry

Me too!  Love Gregorian Chant.  

Something you might find "interesting."   Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble have a CD entitled "Officium."  

It combines jazz (soprano sax) and chant.  Absolutely fantastic. 

Here's a review from  allmusic dot com/album/officium-mw0000635559

Fearlessly searching for new conceptions of sound and not caring where he found them, Garbarek joined hands with the classical early-music movement, improvising around the four male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble. Now here was a radical idea guaranteed to infuriate both hardcore jazz buffs and the even more pristine more-authentic-than-thou folk in early music circles. Yet this unlikely fusion works stunningly well -- and even more hearteningly, went over the heads of the purists and became a hit album at a time (1994) when Gregorian chants were a hot item. Chants, early polyphonic music, and Renaissance motets by composers like Morales and Dufay form the basic material, bringing forth a cool yet moving spirituality in Garbarek's work. Recorded in a heavily reverberant Austrian monastery, the voices sometimes develop in overwhelming waves, and Garbarek rides their crest, his soprano sax soaring in the monastery acoustic, or he underscores the voices almost unobtrusively, echoing the voices, finding ample room to move around the modal harmonies yet applying his sound sparingly. Those with nervous metabolisms may become impatient with this undefinable music, but if you give it a chance, it will seduce you, too.