White noise with Lego bricks will bring back your childhood fantasies

Lego’s debut as a sound artist comes in the form of a seven-track album titled Lego White Noise, made by using thousands of Lego bricks. — Lego/dpa

You haven’t felt this at peace since you were seven years old.

You’re listening to the sounds of Lego, trickling, rustling, clicking, falling – a three-and-a-half-hour album of white noise made with little more than the bricks you once used to build your childhood fantasies.

Lego’s debut as a sound artist comes in the form of a seven-track album titled Lego White Noise, now streaming on Spotify and Apple Music, made when the company gave sound designers 10,000 bricks to experiment with.

Each track is dedicated to one mesmerising routine or sound, from the slow, gentle trickle of multiple pieces to that perfect click of two small bricks coming together.

Lego bricks can of course make distractingly sharp noises, and few things strike more fear into the heart of a parent than the sudden sound of a thousand pieces of Lego being upturned onto the floor.

But turn this into a steady flow – as done with The Waterfall, made by pouring thousands of bricks on top of each other – and you have a calm white noise that will drown out most unwanted sounds.

The highlight is undoubtedly track three – Searching For The One (Brick) – which is the sound of a hand rooting through a large bag of pieces, followed by the satisfying noise of the sought-after brick being set aside for later use.

For 30 minutes, over and over.

The album culminates with The Night Builder, in what sounds like a child assembling some secret project by torchlight under their blanket. It’s perfect for anyone who likes to fall asleep to the atmospheric soundscape of a crackling campfire.

Listening to the almost colourful sounding noises of this album, as you slowly approach Zen, you get the sense nobody’s in a hurry to get this particular pirate ship finished.

It will be done when it’s done. – dpa