Hushette: Ambient Noise

A sound machine in your pocket. Every sound in Hushette is made on your device as it plays, so it never loops and never repeats: no seams, no telltale bird every forty seconds. FIFTEEN SOUNDS, MIXED FREELY Noise: white, pink and brown. Nature: rain, distant thunder, waves in sets, wind in gusts and lulls, a running stream, crickets at night and a dawn chorus of birds. Home: a fan and a crackling fireplace. Tap any tile to switch a sound on, and set its level with its slider. The thunder rolls at its own pace, the birds take turns, the fire pops now and then. FOCUS TONES Binaural beats (for headphones) and isochronic pulses (on speakers too), at four rates from delta to beta. Play them alone or under the rain. A NOISE FOR YOUR ROOM Hushette can listen to your room for five seconds and shape a noise, Room, to cover what it hears: a fridge's hum, traffic, voices through a wall. Only eight…