About

I must have been making some sort of beatbox noises one night when Stephanie called me “DJ Justinsomnia.”

Suddenly both our minds went off in opposite directions. She heard insomnia, and started mimicking a superfast techno beat, while I heard DJ Justin Somnia and imagined something way more soporific. She riffed on that idea and started making a low continuous drone. Over which I said in my best radio announcer voice,

“DJ Justin Somnia tearing it up at the White Noise Lounge, playing today’s freshest white noise tracks…”

We went back and forth like this for a while, cracking each other up with ideas like “white noise radio,” that played nothing but a continuous low hum, all—day—long. The next morning she was still giggling to herself about it.

There’s just something about crazy ideas that make me want to try them. So I looked into the feasibility of setting up an internet radio station, but even without copyright concerns it seemed too expensive (for an unproven niche). Almost simultaneously the thought occurred to us, why not start a white noise audio blog (aka a podcast)? How weird would that be? On a whim I registered whitenoiselounge.com, ordered a Zoom H2 Recorder (that I’d been eying for some time), and the rest is history.

As an aside: acoustically, white noise refers to a very specific type of sound, but since this is a lounge, we welcome all sorts of ambient, found sounds.

Contact

Feel free to email us at: dj at white noise lounge dot com