Lo-Fi ZEN

Lo-Fi ZEN does not play back finished tracks. The lo-fi jazz is assembled note by note, the rain and the whale song grain by grain, on your phone while you listen. It is an app for falling asleep, for focusing, or simply for passing the night. ■ No loop seam No song is looped as a whole; everything is put together on the device as it plays. The tape loops have lengths that don't divide evenly into beats, so their overlap keeps drifting, and hours later there is still no "here we go again". That does not mean a brand-new song every time; it means nothing snags your ear, however long you keep it on. ■ Five worlds - Lo-Fi ZEN — a wooden house in Showa-era Japan. A girl listens to lo-fi jazz on vinyl. Twelve songs across the four seasons, from a hazy spring moon to winter under the quilt. The picture follows the song. - KUJIRA — the sea. Swell, whale song, waves, underwater, the deep,…