https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTzOYoc7tZU
― Random ASMR Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link
this american life basically is a guy fetishistically whispering, I can see how they would do a feature on this
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
it weirds me out! all I can hear is the sounds their mouths make and it gives me the creeps.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
this came up in a class I was teaching two months ago; a student had made a piece of musique concrete. after he played it, the whole class was sucked into the vortex going through youtubes of this for about 15 minutes. it's one thing to be sitting at a computer being intimately whispered to, it's another to have it amplified loudly through a class PA and experiencing it theater-style with 20 other kids
it's definitely onto something
'I hope that you will find this video about folding towels informative as well as relaxing'
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xNgQTgvtbE
^^ this is the girl mentioned in the TAL thing, the one that sounds like she's got gum or sweets in her mouth. 't Is true. And yet...
― Random ASMR Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
xpost
/made a piece of musique concrete out of the compressed/aliasing sounds of whispering sourced from youtubes
that ipod tapping one is really something
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
i have the exact opposite reaction to garrison keilor, but a lot of the descriptions sound eerily similar, except unpleasant.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
there was an interview with an asmr videomaker on the hairpin just the other day: http://thehairpin.com/2013/05/something-quiet-something-just-for-you
(her concern with balancing out the gender makeup of her viewers was pretty interesting, to me)
― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:12 (ten years ago) link
sorry sorry i mean ASMRtist
― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:26 (ten years ago) link
i was about to start a thread on this, ~whisperers~ i love this stuff. all these ppl practising the art of gentleness, producing these peculiar hypnotic folk noise videos with extreme care. i've had this sensation for years, i remember a childhood piano teacher set them off in a major way, & it's amazing to find this huge online community producing all this stuff. i respond to quite a lot of this stuff, but i love how specific some ppl's triggers are; one of my friends only really gets it w/ paper sounds/page turning. there's loads of things on youtube that border on this too - certain pronunciation videos, games tutorials, hypnosis vids - the format is perfect for it. otoh there's something odd about these extremely meticulously produced homages to the sensory properties of objects/sounds&c., which are then digitized & broadcast to a totally passive audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTUgKKdRyt4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5hJn-KCrxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OymzRMKqowM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRQp3C824e4
― ogmor, Thursday, 6 June 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
not sold on this hat, but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TZdaqmz44M
― ogmor, Thursday, 6 June 2013 23:57 (ten years ago) link
anyway, i get the tingle, the videos do have an addictive quality, but i have no idea what's in it for the people who produce them. some of them are outrageously prolific, uploading dozens of videos a month, and i'm not clear what kick they get out of doing their role-plays &c.
― ogmor, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
what would john cage say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFJZPowP2l0
― ogmor, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
feel like this is a viral campaign for some scifi movie, ive been fooled before
― lag∞n, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
the overlap w/ music is interesting to me. especially w/ solo instrumentalists & free improv. it's a shame most of the asmr stuff has such bad sound quality. listening to some toshimaru nakamura atm & it's not far off at all.
― ogmor, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link
would be so amazing to see an asmr film in a cinema. there could be specialist theatres for them, rather than seedy porn cinemas they'd be very clean, well-maintained, tastefully decorated, staffed entirely by whispering ushers who would take great care ripping your ticket.
― ogmor, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
you'd be really happy if you got to sit next to someone who was unwrapping sweets one by one.
― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link
oh I get this!! mostly with the measured speaking voices of slightly sticky-throated old men as they plough through some choice literature
think the most profound example, though, is Alpha Soixante. hairs on neck, standin'
― ghosts of lower belvedere high technology sludge incinerator (imago), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
the music-y stuff reminds me of all sorts of deep listening, lowercase, field record-y stuff that is fantastic, need to start ripping some of these i think
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:29 (ten years ago) link
the sound of writing also does this for me
yayyy thanks ilx
― ghosts of lower belvedere high technology sludge incinerator (imago), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
Ppl have been talking about neck-hairs standing and spines tingling in response to sounds forever, thank god someone finally came up with an entirely stupid name for it
Dig these vids tho, a friend hipped me to this last year but I'd forgotten it
― too busy s1ockin' on my 乒乓 (wins), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:41 (ten years ago) link
somehow never heard the term lowercase before, this feels like a key discovery. what's amazing to me about the asmr stuff is that this entirely DIY medium has sprung up so quickly & on such a huge scale, & it's all mnstrm ppl w/ no connection to any of the underground stuff it's reminiscent of.
― ogmor, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:47 (ten years ago) link
you need to find good youtube channels to follow. ppl w/ good microphones or whose voice you like &c. tempted to try and make a video.
― ogmor, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:49 (ten years ago) link
Steve Roden is yr guy to check out for the world of lowercase
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ubu.com/sound/roden.html
been very into that this week
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
i think i might spend some time overlaying some of these ASMR soundtracks in Audacity
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:55 (ten years ago) link
judging by his album covers I think I am going to be a fan. ubuweb is such a gold mine.
― ogmor, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
you should! keep it nice & clean, sparse. i remember ages ago dominique leone reviewed/enthused about a large & prohibitively expensive boxset of improvised electronic music from japan in which he described one of the tracks as sounding like someone gently sorting through some marbles in a drawer, which always struck me as a v enticing description, and now i can binge to my heart's content...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJHnSffH5UM
― ogmor, Friday, 7 June 2013 01:05 (ten years ago) link
aren't these basically fetish films? they remind me of those wordless compilations of close-ups of different feet walking, stepping, etc
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 7 June 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
are you guys down with the binaural solfeggio frequency underground? cuz thats a whole nother world within worlds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgbDoakV40M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsrjvN9BXAE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfeB3lvcyIc&list=PL6dwRkxIh74kYuyoye3ColMStjjSvfo3N
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7sHjv6QthQ
― scott seward, Friday, 7 June 2013 03:06 (ten years ago) link
as far as the whisper people go, i have kind of a natural aversion to mouth sounds and when someone whispers in my ear i freak out a little. could never take that sinead o'connor a capella song where i can just hear her mouth and throat making noises. automatic writing DOES freak me the fuck out. but i'm all for field recordings of pencils and marbles. there are certainly a zillion avant garde records and CDs that do similar things and i dig those too. just remember you CAN try that kind of thing at home. anyone can make great ambient recordings with a decent recording device. its fun.
― scott seward, Friday, 7 June 2013 03:10 (ten years ago) link
haterz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfftTrmhhzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgWtQF_3dc
― scott seward, Friday, 7 June 2013 03:12 (ten years ago) link
i dig solfeggio musiks but if you go down that youtube road you end up watching too many ben stiller skits that are not actually ben stiller skits. and then i kinda wiah i could just pick up some choice tunes at the newage store.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBsczafvaA
― scott seward, Friday, 7 June 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
god if this thread didn't have 'weird shit' in the title i could have sworn it was a sebastien chikara joint
― j., Friday, 7 June 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link
My ASMR triggers are hairdryers, vacuum cleaners and televisions on static channels, and I am often grateful for Youtube and the existence of videos of these sounds on a loop of 100 hours.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 7 June 2013 07:03 (ten years ago) link
the internet is amazing, i take back anything i ever said about how it is no longer amazing
― j., Friday, 7 June 2013 07:53 (ten years ago) link
Other phrases to describe the sensation refer to it as a "brain orgasm", "brain massage", "head tingle", "brain tingles", "head orgasm", "spine tingle", and "braingasm".[4][5][6][7][8]
This sounds like a lot of fun. I'm going to try it out when I get home, because I'm at work
― paolo, Friday, 7 June 2013 12:35 (ten years ago) link
the whole thing with people saying "omg i have that too!" when the scientific community is either staying silent or calling bullshit really echoes the trypophobia phenomenon
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
This is a really great thread.
― waterface, Friday, 7 June 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
sorry for spamming with newage frequency vids. just been thinking about that stuff and how it grows via the web.
― scott seward, Friday, 7 June 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
http://www.kritzerland.com/KL_Whisperer72.png
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
i just came like six or fourteen times watching that marbles video
― ed ASMR (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
I sympathize, though it were the hands/finger movements that really put me in a trance tbh
― Random ACRB.PNG Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
nb: i did not actually come at all watching that marbles video
― ed ASMR (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
How about this Marbles video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzecFUtfwk
― hashtag sizzler (Phil D.), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
http://www.asmrisland.com/index.php/40-news/community/303-theyoungturks-controversy
quiet fite!!!
― j., Saturday, 8 June 2013 04:39 (ten years ago) link
Binaural vids remind me of the Dream House in NYC
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 8 June 2013 06:01 (ten years ago) link
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEzmdIytseQ
― scott seward, Saturday, 8 June 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Am enjoying these but can't fully let go of a fear that the next one I try will be a SCREAMER. :- (
― Pyotr Ilyich Chai Latte (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 8 June 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgJQSetoalk
― r common stop-pretendin (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:36 (ten years ago) link
Kim Richards = former child star turned "Real Housewives" reality TV star.Lisa Rinna = former TV star turned "Real Housewives" reality TV star.Eileen Davidson = IDK. Ok, apparently she was a former soap opera star turned "Real Housewives" reality TV star.
So it looks like this is a clip from a scene from whatever version of "Real Housewives" starred all three of those people. IDK and honestly couldn't care less now I know the probable source. Yeah, I'm an ASMR snob.
― Dee the (Summer-Hating) Lurker (deethelurker), Sunday, 16 June 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Sunday, 16 June 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
I'm mesmerized by the ASMR erotic stuff, straight and gay, it's all kind of amazing
― Dan S, Sunday, 16 June 2019 00:29 (four years ago) link
just love the sound of a voice more than anything
― Dan S, Sunday, 16 June 2019 00:47 (four years ago) link
the bbc have tracked down and interviewed the welsh stone carver from one of the most classic unintentional asmr videos https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-48724352/asmr-welsh-stone-carver-is-unintentional-youtube-star
― ogmor, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 09:46 (four years ago) link
"my voice - and this is what is so embarrassing - seems to calm people down!"
Bless 'im, lovely man.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link
it's interesting how many of the best unintentional asmr videos feature older people, I wonder if asmr is in part a reaction against a trend towards higher energy & higher anxiety communication
― ogmor, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
makes sense to me, i hate the Youtuber near-shouting all the time style
― Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:30 (four years ago) link
Yeah, Frankie MacDonald really grinds my gears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYdmJDQKYcw
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link
(just kidding - love that guy)
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
he seems like a good guy :)
was thinking about how hard it was to watch vids about video games for example without subjecting myself to some Poochy-face ironic shouter for hours on end
― Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
Tempted to put this in the youtubers who aren't terrible thread to get it even more exposure, but here it goes for now. This is glorious stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RidKpZEJj4E
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
that is absolutely wonderful, subscribed
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
thank you
― adam, Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
ah, the double-wave
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
The first episode is very good, but that second one is indeed especially wonderful. Thanks to a pal on thee dreaded fb for originally sharing it a few days ago. I've never encountered Purim before, so those parts are particularly fascinating, without interrupting the relaxing zen vibe.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 9 May 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
i fucking LOVE this video, thank you for sharing it
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
This is low-key the greatest YouTube video ever made
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
A philosopher reflects on ASMR.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
The ASMR videos I most enjoy are intimacy porn. They elicit the pleasures of intimacy without the difficulties and burdens characteristic of its genuine instances—in short, those associated with the presence of another vulnerable, hungering person.
this articulates my experience
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
i like some of the haircut ones with binaural electric clippers action. v relaxing.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 13 May 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
that was a good essay Euler, thanks
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
my...pleasure
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVcx29q3ey4
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 March 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.cineworld.co.uk/static/en/uk/blog/christmas-cineworld-asmr-film-dreaming-of-stars
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 2 December 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
hell yeah brother
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsershh4uVQ
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 September 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8iLJxjZDdg
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 December 2022 05:09 (one year ago) link
unintentional asmr videos are all the rage. this is the champion according to fans. people have watched it hundreds of times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqIuvav5hY
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 21:09 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 21:10 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H2ELl2ZMDg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 21:12 (ten months ago) link
i think this is my favorite unintentional asmr, or the one of Bjork taking apart her televisionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M68e7C2yO2g
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 21:20 (ten months ago) link
also Haiying Yang is the queen of this
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 21:41 (ten months ago) link
This one is all time even though it’s very off the cuff. Doesn’t hurt that he’s a handsome guy who speaks my language but his hand gestures put it over the top. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxF4-nOJrJ4
― Chrissy Zebby Tembo No Sa Rembo Chari Bari Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo (Deflatormouse), Friday, 7 July 2023 06:30 (ten months ago) link