What's it called · Sound 19
Ambience
Also called: Ambient sound
Background sound that continues throughout a setting, such as birdsong or wind.
Listen to the birds and wind separately from the stream.
Often confused with
- Foley: A recording technique that recreates sounds for individual actions rather than continuous background sound for a place
- Diegetic / Non-diegetic: A classification by whether characters can hear a sound rather than a type of background sound