Environments 12 is an artistic intervention into the histories of ambient soundscape recordings—the sampling of the natural world popularised by the wellness industry. It takes after Irv Teibel, an ambient new age music pioneer and field recordist who founded the ‘Environments Series’, 11 records produced across 1969-79. As a speculative 12th edition to the Environments Series, this record could be thought of as an inverted environmental recording. Rather than presenting the ‘sounds of nature’ on their own, it is about these sounds, how they came into being, and how they are being used to reprogram nature itself.