A new app has arrived for iOS that wants to level up your white noise experience. Developed by music writer Christopher R Weingarten, Fuzzzel has a unique selling point in that it features specially commissioned new pieces from six experimental musicians: Owen Pallett, Mary Lattimore, Kelly Moran, William Hutson of clipping., Eluvium, and field recordist Chris Watson. It’s not just white noise, it’s “artisanal” white noise.

Writing in a press release, Weingarten explains: 

“One of my core beliefs about experimental music is that there’s no ‘correct’ way to listen to it. I’ve intentionally left Fuzzzel abstract. Play these pieces quietly or loudly. Use them for daydreaming or for focusing. Use them as ambient noise or as your favorite jams. These are open spaces for the user’s own wants and needs. When I started approaching these artists, many of them would tell me that they had already concocted bespoke white noise solutions for their own lives. I’m psyched to bring these personal pieces to the world, and allow people to connect with them in their own ways.”

Each of the creators has provided some context into their contributions, which play on an infinite loop.

Owen Pallett’s “Wake (i)” was designed as a reaction to inappropriate yoga studio music, and makes use of a specially designed synth patch that Pallett calls a “noise organ.” Lattimore’s piece features harp, naturally, plus Moog and copper handbells, and was written “after taking [a] friend to the hospital in an emergency.”

Kelly Moran’s contribution is a drone meditation called “Solina”, which she describes a “sonic representation of a glacier melting.” For something a little darker, William Hutson’s cosmic noise piece “A Place to Be Still” is partially constructed from music originally made for clipping.’s Splendor & Misery album. Embracing the “unimaginable scale of the universe” might not be everyone’s favourite bedtime thought exercise, but it works for him.

Eluvium don’t offer much of an explanation for their thundering piece, but a short poem uses words like “ripping you apart” and “an endless cycle of destruction and rebirth,” so enter at your own risk there. Chris Watson’s wind-woven piece is something of a palette cleanser, then, with a more traditional white noise sound constructed from a field recording made in northeastern Spain earlier this year.

Fuzzzel is available for download now on iOS.