One room in Anantnag,
and a phone that stopped shouting

The audio is mixed the way a record is mixed. The light is drawn by Android code written directly against the operating system, which is why it covers the whole screen rather than one app's window — the status bar and the navigation buttons included.

Neither half is a recent hobby. On the sound side, I composed and produced Magical Kashmiri Melodies, a full album released under Soundsoft Lab. On the software side, I have been taking Android apart since its early days — rooting, custom ROMs, modules — long before I published anything of my own. In 2019 that became Mind Programmer, an Android application grounded in NLP and cognitive-science research; that research never stopped, and it is what became Focus Flow inside SonoLune.

It exists because I wanted a phone that didn't shout. Every filter I tried stopped at the edge of one app. Every sound app played somebody else's track. Every focus timer handed me a streak to lose. So I built the one I wanted and couldn't find.

The other half of the desk

Ableton, a Push, a keyboard and a small mixer — and a pair of headphones calibrated with Sonarworks, which is where the stereo mixing and the mastering actually happen. Every sound in SonoLune — the rain, the wind, the fire, the forest — is built and mixed here, in this room, on this desk.

The window on the wall is a picture. It seemed a reasonable thing to want, in a room where the work is making screens feel a little more like somewhere you would want to be.