We work so hard to make our working, home and leisure environments acoustically better that we may be overlooking an essential aspect, our need for “sound”, our need especially for the “sound of nature”. Back in the office many of us work in cacophony or we are discovering during this “lockdown” that we live in homes where the TV is too loud, our hospitals are often crazy busy noisy environments, everywhere designers are struggling to clean these spaces of aggressive and distracting audio disturbance, but once we do that, how do we know that these spaces provide us with the optimum environments for focus, creativity and wellbeing? We speak with Evan Benway, Jazz drummer and Managing Director of the Sound Agency about their new sound system “Moodsonic”, which combines algorithms, audio technology, nature recordings and a lot of research to create inspiring environments to live and work in.