new favorite weird shit on the internet: ASMR ROLE PLAY ~ Autonomous sensory meridian response ~

it weirds me out! all I can hear is the sounds their mouths make and it gives me the creeps.

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'

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...

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/made a piece of musique concrete out of the compressed/aliasing sounds of whispering sourced from youtubes

that ipod tapping one is really something

i have the exact opposite reaction to garrison keilor, but a lot of the descriptions sound eerily similar, except unpleasant.

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)

sorry sorry i mean ASMRtist

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

not sold on this hat, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TZdaqmz44M

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.

what would john cage say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFJZPowP2l0

feel like this is a viral campaign for some scifi movie, ive been fooled before

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.

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.

you'd be really happy if you got to sit next to someone who was unwrapping sweets one by one.

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'

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

the sound of writing also does this for me

yayyy thanks ilx

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

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.

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.

Steve Roden is yr guy to check out for the world of lowercase

http://www.ubu.com/sound/roden.html

been very into that this week

i think i might spend some time overlaying some of these ASMR soundtracks in Audacity

judging by his album covers I think I am going to be a fan. ubuweb is such a gold mine.

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

aren't these basically fetish films? they remind me of those wordless compilations of close-ups of different feet walking, stepping, etc

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

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.

haterz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfftTrmhhzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgWtQF_3dc

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

god if this thread didn't have 'weird shit' in the title i could have sworn it was a sebastien chikara joint

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.

the internet is amazing, i take back anything i ever said about how it is no longer amazing

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

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

This is a really great thread.

sorry for spamming with newage frequency vids. just been thinking about that stuff and how it grows via the web.

http://www.kritzerland.com/KL_Whisperer72.png

i just came like six or fourteen times watching that marbles video

I sympathize, though it were the hands/finger movements that really put me in a trance tbh

nb: i did not actually come at all watching that marbles video

How about this Marbles video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzecFUtfwk

http://www.asmrisland.com/index.php/40-news/community/303-theyoungturks-controversy

quiet fite!!!

Binaural vids remind me of the Dream House in NYC

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEzmdIytseQ

Am enjoying these but can't fully let go of a fear that the next one I try will be a SCREAMER. :- (

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgJQSetoalk

xp I used to use a freeware binaural beats program, and would always jump out of my seat when the super loud computerised voice would say "REMEMBER TO REGISTER" after 30 minutes.

the fear that the next one will be a SCREAMER has kept me away from every youtube that is supposed to help with meditation/relaxation/etc

i do not trust the internet to not want to fuck me up.

I'm mesmerized by the ASMR erotic stuff, straight and gay, it's all kind of amazing

just love the sound of a voice more than anything

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

"my voice - and this is what is so embarrassing - seems to calm people down!"

Bless 'im, lovely man.

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

makes sense to me, i hate the Youtuber near-shouting all the time style

Yeah, Frankie MacDonald really grinds my gears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYdmJDQKYcw

(just kidding - love that guy)

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

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

that is absolutely wonderful, subscribed

thank you

ah, the double-wave

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.

i fucking LOVE this video, thank you for sharing it

This is low-key the greatest YouTube video ever made

A philosopher reflects on ASMR.

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

i like some of the haircut ones with binaural electric clippers action. v relaxing.

that was a good essay Euler, thanks

my...pleasure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVcx29q3ey4

https://www.cineworld.co.uk/static/en/uk/blog/christmas-cineworld-asmr-film-dreaming-of-stars

hell yeah brother

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsershh4uVQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8iLJxjZDdg

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H2ELl2ZMDg

i think this is my favorite unintentional asmr, or the one of Bjork taking apart her television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M68e7C2yO2g

also Haiying Yang is the queen of this

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