By Jonas Weber
Our sound recordist spent a week on sleeper trains across Europe. Notes on rhythm, motion and why it works.
People who can't sleep at home often sleep beautifully on trains. We wanted to know why, so we spent a week recording them, from Vienna to Hamburg and on to Stockholm.
The rhythm under everything
The joints in the track give a beat that's slower than your heart, and very regular. It's the same steady, gentle signal rain gives, with a slight sway on top.
Nobody on a sleeper train is checking their phone at 2 a.m. That's half of it.
The recording in Dusk is forty-five minutes from a single carriage, unedited. It's become one of the most played sounds in the app.
