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A Thank-You to Stéphane Pigeon, the Quiet Noise Wizard:

((This is *NOT* an advertisement -BWU))


((Above is a self-recorded sample of my own combination of Pigeon/myNoise’s Binaural Harmonics and “Do Not Break (DNB)” engines.))

This is a small thank-you note to a man who will probably never read it, but whose work has quietly pulled a lot of us back from the edge.

If you’ve never heard of him:

Stéphane Pigeon is the creator of myNoise – that strange, slightly old-school-looking website full of infinitely tweakable noise generators, binaural textures, and soundscapes. No ads screaming at you, no “optimize your hustle” nonsense. Just dials, sliders, and sound.

On paper, it’s “custom background noise.”
In practice, it’s a free, global, 24/7 regulation tool for anxious kids, burnt-out adults, and the rest of us weirdos trying not to lose our minds.

A Free Tool in a World That Monetizes Suffering

Most of the modern internet is optimized to keep you twitchy, outraged, buying things, or some depressing combination of the three. Attention is harvested; distress is a business model.

myNoise feels like it was built by someone who looked at that world and went:

“No. Here, have this instead. Pay me if you can. If you can’t, still take it.”

That alone is revolutionary.

  • No prescription.
  • No login.
  • No believe in anything necessary.

You open a generator, move some sliders, and your nervous system quietly re-synchronizes with something calmer and more orderly than the timeline doomscroll.

For a lot of people, that’s the difference between “I can’t cope” and “I can make it through the next hour.”

“Do Not Break” and the Art of Not Collapsing

Recently, Stéphane wrote a little post called “Lost in the Jungle.” In it he talks about pushing himself into new musical territory – Goa trance, then Drum & Bass – and ending up composing a generator called “Do Not Break.”

  • His website had just been under attack.
  • He was feeling the pressure.
  • He turned that experience into a sound generator that feels like a storm on the horizon, urging you to keep moving.

That is alchemy.

Most of us respond to attack with panic, shutdown, or collapse. He responded by creating a tool whose whole point is:

“You are under pressure. You still have to keep going. Here’s a sound that helps you not break.”

I’ve been using his binaural harmonics and “Do Not Break” as a kind of personal ritual. I put it on, and it’s like my brain finally has a stable carrier wave to lock onto.

((If you’ve spent the last one to fifteen years on Reddit, then: “haha placebo” (as if the counter-argument isn’t already present in the second word) was probably queue’d up.

If that’s the case, feel free to go back to Reddit. Why are you here?))

This is my body going, very clearly:

“Yes. That. That helps. Keep that.”

For Anyone Who’s Struggling

If you’re reading this on Gnosis Under Fire, odds are you’re some combination of:

  • neurodivergent,
  • anxious or depressed,
  • spiritually disoriented,
  • or just very, very tired of being alive in this particular epoch.

I’m not going to tell you myNoise is a magic cure. It isn’t.
But it is one of the cleanest, most low-friction support tools I’ve found in years.

It doesn’t shame you.
It doesn’t track you.
It doesn’t ask you to perform your healing for an algorithm.

You just:

  1. Open a generator that resonates with you (binaural harmonics, rain, temple bells, jungle drums, whatever).
  2. Tweak until your nervous system says “okay… this.”
  3. Let it run while you write, game, clean, dissociate slightly less, or just breathe.

If you have money, throw him a few bucks (I believe a one-time payment of $10 USD is enough for a life-time unlock of experimental features).


If you don’t pay, use it anyway.

That’s why he built it. The man is a genius.

Why I’m Writing This

Partly this is just gratitude.

A guy I’ve never met built a library of signals that’s currently helping me re-thread my brain and keep working. That’s worth a public “thank you.”

It is also a tiny act of signal boosting:

  • The world is full of loud, extractive systems that happily chew up frightened people for profit.
  • myNoise is the opposite: quiet, generous, and mathematically precise in how it helps.

So this post is here simply to say:

If you’re suffering and need something gentle, structured, and non-judgmental to hold your mind together for a bit, go try myNoise (mynoise.net or search “myNoise Stéphane Pigeon” and you’ll find it).
Start with the generators that call to you. See how your body reacts. Keep what works.

Stéphane, if this ever somehow crosses your screen:

Thank you for not breaking, and:


Thank you for turning your own pressure into tools that help the rest of us survive ours.

-Brett/BoloSolo

PS: This is *NOT* an advertisement.

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