Build a harmonizing chord around the disconnected ambient soundscape to unify the environment for a better state of mind. Room Tone reduces disturbance while maintaining connection to the world around us.
How does noise make you feel? Room Tone is a new approach to conditioning the soundscape. Room Tone identifies the musical notes embedded in ambient noise, and synthesizes a harmonizing tone to unify dissonant sounds and mask disturbing ones. It facilitates attention, reflection, empathetic listening, and deep reading. Room Tone makes any environment feel less exhausting or disturbing.
Dissonance → Harmony
Tension → Comfort
Room Tone is a part of the soundscape, it blends in with the noises around it to form a shared chord. Unlike noise cancelation or white noise machines, which obscure the soundscape and isolate us from our surroundings, Room Tone removes only dissonance from a soundscape, negating unpleasant noises while preserving our environment. Dissonant sounds are salient and hard to ignore; they produce a sense of unease or tension. Like a composer reinterpreting an existing piece of music, Room Tone rearranges the content of a soundscape, so the jarring dissonant sounds fade away. It makes any setting feel warm soothing and resolved.
Sounds define how a place feels. The noises around us are distinct and disconnected, and rarely fit together neatly. At their core, all ambient noises contain musical notes. Workplaces click clack in D. Engines rumble in G flat and traffic is perforated with the Fs of a honk. Washing machines drone at A, and a microwave hums along at E flat. Room Tone breaks down a soundscape into its frequency components, and identifies a single note that forms a universal harmonizing chord.
