NoiseLoom began with a question: how can people improvise with complex sound together without specialized software? A browser-based interface answered it, letting anyone join from their own phone within seconds.

Turning the shared spectrogram into both an image and an instrument made the collective nature of the work explicit. Edits accumulate rather than replace one another, so the sound stays a construction that no single participant owns.

A preliminary study with eleven participants reported a strong sense of social connectedness, while newcomers felt less confident shaping the sound. That gap now guides the work toward clearer feedback, a wider range of sound materials, and further spatial-audio experiments.