Pub ambience
The quiet bar at closing time. Free, live and never looping.
Change the mix
Steady rain on the village green, heard from indoors.
This hour at The Kettle & Rain is not yet sponsored. Put your name over the door.
Company without conversation
Some people work best with others nearby. The Quiet bar layer gives you that: the rise and fall of a few people talking, heard through a wall, with the odd glass set down. You cannot make out a single word, so there is nothing to listen in on.
The voices are synthetic. They are made from a buzz and a hiss passed through moving filters, the way a mouth shapes a vowel, and then muffled as if by a door. Nobody was recorded.
The Kettle & Rain
The inn is The Kettle & Rain at Hollowmere: low beams, an inglenook fire and rooms upstairs. The landlady has banked up the fire and left one lamp burning. Bramble, the station cat, has taken the window sill, and Pip the robin has taken Bramble.
Questions
Can you hear what people are saying?
No. The voices are generated sound with the shape of speech and none of the words, so they give the feeling of company without anything to follow.
Is there music?
No. It is the middle of the last century in Hollowmere, the wireless is off, and the only rhythm is the clock.
Can I make the bar busier?
Turn Quiet bar up for more talk. It stays a small country bar, though. It will not turn into a Friday night in town.
