Quiet Movement

Quiet Movement lies face-up in a working room, such as a studio, a workshop, a classroom or a shared office, and keeps an ear on how loud the room is. When the room gets loud and stays loud for a moment, it answers with something calm instead of an alarm: a breathing cycle paced 4 · 6 · 8, or a short full stop with a quiet tick-tock under it. One screen, made to be read from across the room: • Press Start and put the phone down. You can see at a glance whether it is listening or answering. • Set how sensitive each level is on a ten-step scale, tuned by ear, and the loudness range it listens across. • Levels are ordered: when the room crosses a line, the app weighs the noise for a moment, and the loudest level the room actually reached is the one that answers. • Choose how many breathing cycles to run, how long the full stop lasts, and how long it weighs the noise before answering. • Its…