After-School Library at Sunset — Sounds for Study & Focus (1 Hour, No Music) | Focus Sound Room #05

60 minutes of pencil writing with quiet after-school library and distant schoolyard sounds. No narration, no background music (a distant school band warming up can be faintly heard at times).

Ambient study sounds to play while you study or work.

This episode's page (mix the sounds on the web)

haccha-meccha.com/en/oto/05

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Focus Sound Room is a series of imaginary, empty rooms where you choose the sounds around you. This time: a window seat in a third-floor school library, looking out over the schoolyard toward distant mountains.

The sun sets at the same pace as a real sunset. The patch of sunlight on the desk slowly slides toward you, and then the sun slips behind the mountains. The field lights come on, then the library lights, and the students gradually head home. (In Japan, many students stay after class for club activities — baseball, track, brass band.)

Around 29:36, the sun touches the mountains (it disappears about three minutes later).

In the web app, you can adjust the pencil, library, school clubs, school band and outside sounds separately. Set the time you'll leave, and the sun will set in time with it. You can also write today's goals in the notebook.

The sun's height and direction are calculated for Tokyo on October 23, 2026 (the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's reference point). The mountains and the school are imaginary.

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Calendar Computing: sunrise and sunset for Tokyo, October 2026 (in Japanese)

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Calendar Computing: glossary (definition of sunset) (in Japanese)

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The pictures show an imaginary room drawn with tools. The sounds mix free-to-use (CC0) recordings with sounds we made.

Recordings (all Freesound, CC0 1.0; open each number at freesound.org/s/NUMBER ; excerpts, distance processing, levels and arrangement by Tamelabo)

Writing with a pencil in a no… — _javier_rodas (862571)

사각사각 필기 소리 — Ban_cheong (833488)

writing and paper noises with… — MeanRaccoon (816927)

Writing Foley.wav — ReelContinuity (511102)

Turning pages.wav — bdunis4 (271459)

Paper - Eraser — Vrymaa (753279)

clicking mechanical pencil.wav — boyscontentclub (521592)

Quiet library ambience — xkeril (620683)

Page turns and book close/open — exterminat (164806)

Turning page (heavy paper) — xkeril (856497)

Book_Take_Shelf_PutBack.wav — LamaMakesMusic (403569)

Bookshelf, find books.wav — Ryding (109301)

Chair Scrape — bangcorrupt (832998)

Wooden chair, slide scrape on… — SpliceSound (188204)

Quiet footsteps indoors rubbe… — dynamique (613723)

Sneakers 3.wav — Greenbird11 (620416)

Sneakers 2.wav — Greenbird11 (620417)

DOORWood_Community centre doo… — thaighaudio (843831)

fluorescent light hum buzz1.f… — kyles (637541)

fluorescent light switch on o… — kyles (452624)

Football training session Not… — LarsErikErtzgaardRingen (533861)

SFX high school playground di… — nickpursehouse (132855)

Sound of Hitting Bat — kittenunicorn (731821)

Softball/Baseball Hit — bowlingballout (860786)

football practice 1.wav — cognito perceptu (19936)

Referee whistle blow, gymnasi… — SpliceSound (218318)

metal whistle.wav — strongbot (568995)

AIRMisc_Int_Short Hard Whistl… — Joshua_van_Zyl (764837)

AIRMisc_Int_Short Soft Whistl… — Joshua_van_Zyl (764838)

AIRMisc_Int_Long hard Whistle… — Joshua_van_Zyl (764835)

Basketball practice.wav — amthomas101 (175833)

School Band Warm-Up.wav — nervousneal (457297)

SOUND EFFECT SCHOOL BAND ROOM… — cpark12 (682864)

band practice - scales.wav — thatjeffcarter (360538)

Wind across open window — richwise (866682)

curtains in the wind sfx.mp3 — Rinus_Marais (655458)

160170_wind blowing curtain_O… — CarloVan19 (367328)

042616 ravens in Sapporo.mp3 — pflanigan (390250)

Japan_Kashiwa_Insects_Far_and… — RutgerMuller (365257)

Japan_Kashiwa_Night_Crickets_… — RutgerMuller (361917)

Japan_Kashiwa_Quiet_Street_Tr… — RutgerMuller (361900)

CC0: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0