Environments is a series of LPs, cassettes, 8-Track cartridges and CDs created by producer and sound recordist Irving S. Teibel for Syntonic Research Inc. between 1970 and 1979. The series consists of recordings of nature sounds such as a seashore with crashing waves and a thunderstorm with falling rain. The series ignited a worldwide interest in field recordings which resulted in literally thousands of imitations being released during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (ie: "Moods", "Solitudes", etc.).
The Environments albums were the first of the many field recordings of nature sounds that became popular as a form of audio entertainment the 1970s,[1] and they were considered definitive enough to have excerpts included on the Voyager Gold Record.[2] The Environments series also presented some of the longest album-sides ever released.[citation needed]
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