--- title: "Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes Wildlife & Soundtracks (28 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Explore all 28 animals paired with Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes musical subculture, sister artists, and biological superpowers." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" --- # Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes Wildlife & Musical Subculture > Vast subterranean sub-bass rumbles, glacial tape loops, and bottomless deep-ocean silence. **Similar Artists**: Tim Hecker, Stars of the Lid, William Basinski, Grouper, Loscil, Mary Lattimore, Geinoh Yamashirogumi - **Species Count**: 28 Curated Creatures - **Explore Web**: [Interactive vibe player & gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/vibes/glacial-ambient-drone-soundscapes/) ## Species Aligned With Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes - [American Black Bear](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-black-bear/) (*Ursus americanus*) - **Musical Match**: William Basinski, "dlp 1.1" - **Biological Rationale**: A black bear in torpor does not eat or drink, and in the northernmost part of its range that winter has been known to last seven months. William Basinski's dlp 1.1 is one tape loop that changes so slowly over an hour that you barely hear it move. - **Superpower**: A sense of smell about seven times stronger than a bloodhound's - [Andean Condor](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/andean-condor/) (*Vultur gryphus*) - **Musical Match**: Stars of the Lid, "Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2" - **Biological Rationale**: Tracked condors flapped for 1% of their flight time, and one soared for more than 5 hours without a single wingbeat. This piece holds sustained strings and organ tones for seven minutes with no drum and almost no attack, just lift and glide. - **Superpower**: Flapped for only 1% of flight time in a tracking study - [Antarctic Icefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/antarctic-icefish/) (*Champsocephalus gunnari*) - **Musical Match**: Biosphere, "Kobresia" - **Biological Rationale**: Deep sub-zero drone textures and translucent atmospherics for a fish whose nearly colorless blood has no hemoglobin and carries oxygen only dissolved in its plasma, at under 10 percent of the capacity of its red-blooded relatives. - **Superpower**: Belongs to the only vertebrate family that lacks working hemoglobin genes and working red blood cells: its blood carries oxygen dissolved in the plasma instead. - [Antarctic Krill](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/antarctic-krill/) (*Euphausia superba*) - **Musical Match**: Tycho, "Awake" - **Biological Rationale**: Luminous, shimmering analog synthesizers for an animal that carries its own lights: eight of its ten photophores sit on muscular stalks that turn to aim their blue glow away from incoming light. - **Superpower**: An estimated 400 million tonnes in the Southern Ocean, photophores on muscular stalks that aim their light away from incoming light, and the ability to shrink, burning its own body protein as fuel, when food is scarce in winter. - [Arctic Fox](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/arctic-fox/) (*Vulpes lagopus*) - **Musical Match**: Ásgeir, "King and Cross" - **Biological Rationale**: Delicate acoustic fingerpicking and shimmering ambient reverb, calm and unhurried, like a fox whose fur insulates so well that its body needs no extra energy to stay warm even at -40°C. - **Superpower**: Feet held just above the point where living tissue freezes, and a body that needs no extra energy to stay warm even at -40°C. - [Australasian Ghost Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/australasian-ghost-shark/) (*Harriotta avia*) - **Musical Match**: Bohren & der Club of Gore, "Prowler" - **Biological Rationale**: The Australasian ghost shark prowls pitch-black abyssal trenches with slow-motion, shadowy presence. Its eerie, reflective green eyes and smooth chocolate-brown cartilage glide through absolute darkness like a nocturnal doom-jazz saxophone line. - **Superpower**: Cartilaginous electro-receptive rostrum and massive mineralized tooth plates - [Australian Lungfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/australian-lungfish/) (*Neoceratodus forsteri*) - **Musical Match**: Brian Eno, "An Ending (Ascent)" - **Biological Rationale**: Deep, slow-evolving ambient drones for a fish that can surface to breathe air: as oxygen in the water drops, it breathes faster through its gills, then takes more air breaths. - **Superpower**: A single lung for breathing air when streams turn stagnant, and a genome known to be the largest of any animal - [Barn Owl](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/barn-owl/) (*Tyto alba*) - **Musical Match**: Grouper, "Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping" - **Biological Rationale**: Whispered vocals sunk under tape hiss, for a hunter that is completely silent on the wing and, in tests, found prey in total darkness by sound alone. - **Superpower**: In tests, it found prey in total darkness by sound alone with an error of under one degree. Its two external ears are asymmetric, and a flap of skin in front of each ear opening can redirect where that ear is most sensitive. - [Barramundi](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/barramundi/) (*Lates calcarifer*) - **Musical Match**: Tycho, "Dive" - **Biological Rationale**: Barramundi spawn at full and new moon, mostly as a rising tide begins. Dive is a long, slow build of synth layers that swell in and draw back like water coming up a river mouth. - **Superpower**: Sex change: most mature as males, then switch to female as they grow - [Bobcat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bobcat/) (*Lynx rufus*) - **Musical Match**: Julianna Barwick, "The Magic Place" - **Biological Rationale**: To cut the noise of a hunt, a bobcat sets each back foot down where a front foot has already stepped. Julianna Barwick built The Magic Place by looping her own voice, laying each new layer down on top of the one before. - **Superpower**: Steps its back feet into its front-foot prints to cut the noise of its stalk - [Calanus Copepod](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/calanus-copepod/) (*Calanus finmarchicus*) - **Musical Match**: Steve Roach, "Structures from Silence" - **Biological Rationale**: Towards the end of summer it descends to deeper water and spends the winter dormant, living off its oil sac. Structures from Silence moves the same way: slow synth tones that hold and barely change from start to finish. - **Superpower**: Stores energy in a large oil sac of wax esters - [Common Earwig](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-earwig/) (*Forficula auricularia*) - **Musical Match**: Mary Lattimore, "Silver Ladders" - **Biological Rationale**: Harp patterns that unfold slowly, layer by layer, for an insect whose folded hind wings cannot be opened from the thorax and must be unfolded by the pincers on its tail. - **Superpower**: A mother that grooms and guards her eggs like a hen, and hind wings that must be unfolded by the tail forceps - [Common Frog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-frog/) (*Rana temporaria*) - **Musical Match**: Julianna Barwick, "Nebula" - **Biological Rationale**: A common frog's spawn raft can hold up to 2,000 eggs, each in its own clear jelly capsule, piled into one floating mass. Julianna Barwick builds Nebula the same way, from copy after copy of her own voice stacked into one cloud of sound. - **Superpower**: Cold survival: it winters under rocks or buried in pond mud and lives as far north as the Arctic Circle - [Common Starfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-starfish/) (*Asterias rubens*) - **Musical Match**: Bohren & der Club of Gore, "Midnight Black Earth" - **Biological Rationale**: It moves at an average of six inches per minute and feeds by pushing its stomach into a mussel once the gap is under 0.1 mm. Bohren's doom jazz crawls at the same pace, a chord every few seconds and nothing hurried. - **Superpower**: Pushes its stomach into a mussel shell and digests the meal inside - [Dumbo Octopus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/dumbo-octopus/) (*Grimpoteuthis*) - **Musical Match**: Mary Lattimore, "Sometimes He's In My Dreams" - **Biological Rationale**: Gentle celesta chimes and floating harp arpeggios for an octopus that swims by flapping its ear-like fins instead of jetting, as octopuses typically do. - **Superpower**: No ink sac: it moves quickly to get away instead. It also swims with its ear-like fins, unusual for octopuses, which typically rely on jet propulsion. - [European Eel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-eel/) (*Anguilla anguilla*) - **Musical Match**: Kali Malone, "Spectacle Of Ritual" - **Biological Rationale**: Tagged European eels headed for the Sargasso Sea at an average of 6.8 km a day, in what the data suggest is a long, slow trip at depth. Kali Malone's organ music moves at that pace, with long held chords that change so gradually the shift takes minutes to hear. - **Superpower**: Swims 5,000 to 10,000 km across the Atlantic to spawn - [Fisher](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/fisher/) (*Pekania pennanti*) - **Musical Match**: Pauline Oliveros, "Lear" - **Biological Rationale**: Once a female fisher's eggs are fertilized, the embryos stop growing for 10 to 11 months. Pauline Oliveros recorded Lear in an empty underground cistern whose echo holds each sound in the air for about 45 seconds. - **Superpower**: Its embryos pause for 10 to 11 months and a mother mates again soon after giving birth, so a female is pregnant or nursing for almost all of her adult life - [Giant Clam](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-clam/) (*Tridacna gigas*) - **Musical Match**: Hiroshi Yoshimura, "Water Copy" - **Biological Rationale**: Once a giant clam settles, it stays in that spot for the rest of its life, drawing seawater in through a siphon and filtering out plankton. Water Copy is a slow loop of soft, dripping synth notes that hardly moves at all. - **Superpower**: Hosts billions of algae in its own tissues and gets the majority of its nutrients from them - [Giant Huntsman Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-huntsman-spider/) (*Heteropoda maxima*) - **Musical Match**: Lustmord, "Heresy Part 4" - **Biological Rationale**: Legs that span up to 30 cm, and at least one specimen label says it was caught in a grotto. Lustmord's dark ambient stretches a single tone across minutes, a long reach held in a dark space. - **Superpower**: A leg span of up to 30 cm - [Giant Oarfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-oarfish/) (*Regalecus glesne*) - **Musical Match**: Stars of the Lid, "A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning" - **Biological Rationale**: Vast glacial synthesizer drones and bottomless harmonic space for a fish that swims without bending: its body stays straight while a dorsal fin running its whole length undulates, and it has been seen swimming upright. - **Superpower**: Swims with its body held straight by rippling a dorsal fin that runs its whole length, and has been seen swimming upright, which is believed to be how it searches for prey. - [Glass Frog](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/glass-frog/) (*Centrolenidae*) - **Musical Match**: Clams Casino, "I'm God" - **Biological Rationale**: Hypnotic sub-bass waves and glistening pitch-shifted vocal pads, as see-through as a frog that packs its red blood cells into its liver to stay transparent. - **Superpower**: Resting glass frogs in a 2022 study packed about 89% of their red blood cells into their livers, becoming two to three times more transparent. - [Goblin Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goblin-shark/) (*Mitsukurina owstoni*) - **Musical Match**: Lustmord, "Black Star" - **Biological Rationale**: Pitch-black deep-water drone that breaks into sudden shocks, like a shark whose lower jaw shoots forward at up to 3.14 meters per second when it strikes. - **Superpower**: Catapulting slingshot feeding mechanism that launches its jaws at up to 3.1 meters per second - [Greenland Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greenland-shark/) (*Somniosus microcephalus*) - **Musical Match**: Kali Malone, "Heavy With Fruit" - **Biological Rationale**: Organ chords held so long they barely seem to move, for a shark that grows slowly, swims slowly, and has a lifespan of at least 272 years. - **Superpower**: It grows less than a centimeter a year, females aren't sexually mature until at least 156 years old, give or take 22, and its lifespan runs to at least 272 years, the longest of any known vertebrate. - [Hydra](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hydra/) (*Hydra vulgaris*) - **Musical Match**: GAS, "Pop 4" - **Biological Rationale**: A hydra replaces all of its cells within four weeks, and in the lab its death rate stayed flat as it aged. Pop 4 is built the same way: one loop keeps cycling while the sounds layered over it keep changing. - **Superpower**: Replaces all of its cells within four weeks - [Japanese Giant Salamander](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/japanese-giant-salamander/) (*Andrias japonicus*) - **Musical Match**: Geinoh Yamashirogumi, "KANEDA" - **Biological Rationale**: Resonant bamboo and thunderous taiko-style drums for a nearly blind hunter that feels vibrations in the water through sensory bumps around its head. - **Superpower**: Breathes mainly through its wrinkled skin, and has sensory bumps around its head that work like a fish's lateral line. - [Lion's Mane Jellyfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/lions-mane-jellyfish/) (*Cyanea capillata*) - **Musical Match**: Tim Hecker, "Boreal Kiss Pt. 1" - **Biological Rationale**: Vast glacial synthesizer drones and cascading tape decay textures for a hunter that sinks slowly with its tentacles spread in a circle, netting and stunning its prey. - **Superpower**: Tentacles speculated to trail up to 36.6 meters (120 feet); many authorities rank it the longest of all jellyfish. - [Potto](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/potto/) (*Perodicticus potto*) - **Musical Match**: Harold Budd, "The Room" - **Biological Rationale**: It moves with slow, steady, silent locomotion and can stay still on a branch for long periods without fatigue. The Room moves the same way: soft piano notes placed slowly and left to hang until they fade. - **Superpower**: Retia mirabilia that let it hold still for long periods without fatigue, plus a scapular shield it presents to predators - [Three-Toed Sloth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/three-toed-sloth/) (*Bradypus tridactylus*) - **Musical Match**: Brian Eno, "1/1" - **Biological Rationale**: Slow piano loops that repeat and barely change, for a sloth that runs a lower metabolic rate than other mammals of similar size and spent about 70 percent of its time asleep in a lab study. - **Superpower**: A metabolism slower than other mammals its size, and fur algae that can tint it green for canopy camouflage ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://animaltracks.wiki/vibes/glacial-ambient-drone-soundscapes/#collection", "name": "Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes Creatures", "description": "Explore all 28 animals paired with Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes musical subculture, sister artists, and biological superpowers.", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/vibes/glacial-ambient-drone-soundscapes/", "mainEntity": { "@type": "ItemList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "American Black Bear", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-black-bear/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Andean Condor", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/andean-condor/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Antarctic Icefish", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/antarctic-icefish/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Antarctic Krill", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/antarctic-krill/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Arctic Fox", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/arctic-fox/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "name": "Australasian Ghost Shark", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/australasian-ghost-shark/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "name": "Australian Lungfish", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/australian-lungfish/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "name": "Barn Owl", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/barn-owl/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "name": "Barramundi", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/barramundi/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "name": "Bobcat", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bobcat/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "name": "Calanus Copepod", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/calanus-copepod/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "name": "Common Earwig", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-earwig/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "name": "Common Frog", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-frog/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "name": "Common Starfish", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-starfish/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "name": "Dumbo Octopus", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/dumbo-octopus/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "name": "European Eel", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-eel/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "name": "Fisher", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/fisher/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 18, "name": "Giant Clam", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-clam/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 19, "name": "Giant Huntsman Spider", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-huntsman-spider/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 20, "name": "Giant Oarfish", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-oarfish/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 21, "name": "Glass Frog", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/glass-frog/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 22, "name": "Goblin Shark", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goblin-shark/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 23, "name": "Greenland Shark", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greenland-shark/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 24, "name": "Hydra", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hydra/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 25, "name": "Japanese Giant Salamander", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/japanese-giant-salamander/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 26, "name": "Lion's Mane Jellyfish", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/lions-mane-jellyfish/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 27, "name": "Potto", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/potto/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 28, "name": "Three-Toed Sloth", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/three-toed-sloth/" } ] } } ] } ```