Instead of simmering in your thoughts, focus on your five senses: notice the green of the trees, the exact blue of the sky, notice the clouds racing across it; listening to the sound of your footsteps, the wind in the leaves, people talking around you; pay attention to the smells, and what you feel (is it cold, warm, windy, etc).
It is free of dialogue but full of sound, and the VW Dome at PS1 wraps the viewer in wind, footsteps, rustling leaves and the indistinct hum of distant human chatter.
Until Laith piped up with his question, the only sounds were our footsteps and the wind, against which Nasser was wearing a wool hat and a pleated brown jacket.
This helps you eliminate rumble and sounds such as unwanted footsteps, traffic and wind.
These modest sanctuaries can provide at least a taste of silence, which is then recognized not to be silence at all, but the sounds of the larger world we inhabit: birdsong and footsteps, water, voices and wind.
Add some slight eerie sounds (e.g. a tap dripping, creaking floorboards, quiet violins screeching at a high pitch, footsteps, or even some wind from a draft); anything to create tension.
When we troubled to heat up enough water on the kerosene stove for a daylight bath, the prismatically generated rainbow kept the bather company; it quivered and bobbed when footsteps or a breath of wind made the house tremble.
That's the best moment: you've pitched your tent, you've eaten your dinner, and you crawl into your tent with your headlamp and read, the sounds of wind, frogs, animals' footsteps around you.
Only a few steps ahead in the passage were visible and the only sounds one could hear was the ever-present wind and the footsteps of the player's avatar.
Instead the soundtrack took in the ambient noises of wind chimes, doors squeaking, footsteps on carpets.
