Hannes Brekke

Hannes designed ambient beds for two meditation apps before going freelance. He writes about how sleep sound is actually made — loop lengths, fade curves, why a bad loop wakes you at the seam. His reviews of noise machines and sound apps are the kind manufacturers read nervously. App work taught him the invisible craft: a sleep sound is engineering pretending to be nothing, and every detail that goes unnoticed — the loop point you can't find, the fade that matches a slowing heartbeat, the spectrum that masks a doorway conversation without hissing — took someone weeks. His entries open that workshop to readers. He explains why an eight-second loop reads as fake by minute three, why crossfades belong below the threshold of attention, and why the render settings on a free app can quietly undo everything the sound designer did. His reviews follow a fixed protocol — same room, same measurements, several real nights — because he thinks 'we slept with it' is the minimum honest standard for recommending something people will sleep with. Manufacturers occasionally write to argue; he publishes the measurements and lets them stand. His recurring theme is respect for the sleeping listener: an audience that cannot skip, cannot rate, and will be woken by a single careless seam. Design for them, he says, and everything else follows.

Writes about: sound design, ambient audio, sleep tech.

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