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Nature Background Music for Scenic Footage
Nature background music on Audiosocket is a curated collection of almost entirely instrumental cinematic and ambient tracks licensed for landscape films, drone footage, scenic drives and nature documentaries. Emotional cues and ambient textures lead, with keyboards, electronic pads, strings and post-rock electric guitar on tracks such as Sarah Schachner's Mountain and Matt Stewart-Evans's Through The Mist. Calm, ambient and quietly sad moods sit beside happy and inspiring ones, echoing curators' Sigur Ros and M83 references.
18 tracks1 hr 3 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
About this Playlist
Nearly the entire collection is instrumental, with We Are Stars by Beacons the notable vocal track. Instrumental cues such as Porcelain Trees by The Clouds Below, Pleiades by Sleevenotes and The Longest Year by Andrea Baroni leave the mix clear for wildlife sound, wind and water, and they sit under documentary narration without competing for attention.
Cinematic and film-TV scoring make up most of the collection, with ambient, downtempo and post rock filling out the rest, and sub-genres including emotional cues, ambient textural pieces and drone-based static themes. Electronic production and keyboards lead, percussion appears on most tracks while calm and ambient remain the leading moods, and strings, electric guitars and mallets add movement. Curators' sounds-like notes name Sigur Ros, M83, Milosh and Cliff Martinez, so expect slow swells more than melody-forward themes.
Nature background music in this collection is scored to move with picture, while relaxation music is designed to stay static. Editors tagged documentary, drama, landscape and timelapse as the leading themes, and moods such as sad, inspiring and dramatic appear alongside calm, which means the cues have arcs and emotional shifts that follow a sunrise timelapse or a valley reveal. Meditation beds avoid those shifts on purpose.
Tracks average about three and a half minutes, which covers a typical drone sequence or timelapse montage on a single cue. Editors tagged intro and outro as a theme, so several cues also work as a short opener or closer for a documentary episode. For a long ambient bed, sequence the ambient and drone-based cuts back to back, since their sustained textures are the easiest to cross-fade.
Tracks licensed through Audiosocket are cleared for commercial use under the tier purchased, covering client work, film and documentary, ads and monetized online video. An Indie Film tier exists alongside Individual, Small Business and Large Business, and each license issued is perpetual for the specific finished work, so a documentary stays cleared after the subscription ends.