Homecoming
Ambient atmosphere inspired by the House from Ray Bradbury's 2003 fix-up novel "From the Dust Returned".
"The House was a puzzle inside an enigma inside a mystery, for it encompassed silences, each one different, and beds, each a different size, some having lids. Some ceilings were high enough to allow flights with rests where shadows might hang upside down. The dining nested thirteen chairs, each numbered thirteen so no one would feel left out of the distinctions such numbers implied. The chandeliers above were shaped from the tears of souls in torment at sea five hundred years lost, and the basement cellar kept five hundred vintage-year bins and strange names on the wine tucked therein and empty cubbies for future visitors who disliked beds or the high ceiling perches.
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How many rooms, cubicles, closets, and bins in all? No one knew. To say one thousand would exaggerate, but one hundred was nowhere near truth. One hundred and fifty nine seems an agreeable amount, and each was empty for a long while, summoning occupants across the world, yearning to pull lodgers from the clouds. The House was a ghost arena, yearning to be haunted. And as the weathers circled Earth for a hundred years, the House became known, and across the world the dead who had lain down for long naps sat up in cold surprise and wished for stranger occupations than being dead, sold off their ghastly trades and prepared for flight."
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License details for "Homecoming"
Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.
List of audio files used:
- bones cracking and crunching by All Sounds on youtube +)
- Cold Arctic Wind by cobratronic from http://www.freesound.org +)
- Cthulhu growl by cylon8472 +)
- Creaking Rigging by kehbe +)
- whispering norwegians by panfilo__ +)
- Desert monolith by Proxima4 from freesound.org +)
- Close lightning by RHumphries from http://freesound.org +)
- Blizzards by Vectormedia +)