NOMN

About NOMN

NOMN makes tools for audio.

Audio is not a technology. It is a process that employs technology to construct temporary social architectures made of air. The tools that shape this process — from the clock that holds digital audio together to the algorithms that distribute notes across time — are not neutral. They encode assumptions about what music is, what fidelity means, what time feels like, and what a listener is for.

Most audio software inherits these assumptions without questioning them. We are interested in the questions.

There have been many refinements in audio tools over the past twenty-five years, but very few genuinely new ideas about how digital audio sounds, how it feels, and how music's temporal structures might be reconceived through the current possibilities of computing — without treating music as a product in need of optimization.

NOMN was founded by Micah Silver. More about his other work at nophones and Polytope.

We want these tools to be reasonably accessible to musicians and producers everywhere, not just in high-income countries. At the same time, prices are what fund the research behind everything we're building and hope to bring forward to the field.

We use purchasing power parity pricing — if you're visiting from a country where our standard pricing is prohibitive, you'll automatically see a reduced price. No coupon codes, no hoops. If your region isn't covered and the price is still a barrier, write to us.