AÌý (continually updated) collection of informative/interesting/weird/curious sound-related links.
In the news
- London's Big Ben about to go silent for 4 years
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- Hearing Loss is a major risk factor for Dementia
BBC
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- NYC subway exposes commuters to noise as loud as a jet engine
Guardian
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- The Science Behind Hating Hillary's Voice
The Atlantic
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- "In Pursuit of Silence" - a new documentary film
New Scientist
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- A plan to quiet the oceans
NYTimes
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- Musician sues Royal Opera House over ruined hearing
BBC
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Physics of sound
- WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
Google deepmind
- 7 ways the future will be quieter
resonics
- Making sound waves
Scientific American
- The coolest things sound waves do
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- Visualizing sound with a 2-D Ruben's Tube.
YouTube
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- How Sound Reveals The Invisible Within Us
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- Volcano sounds used to predict erruptions
Sciencemag
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- The Differences Between Soundproofing and Sound Absorption
UK Acoustic Systems
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- Hidden Hearing Loss
Scientific American
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- How Ancient Whales Turned Sound Into a Killing Tactic
Gizmodo
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- Vestigial Ear-Wiggling Reflex
A reminder of the common ancestry we share with other animals.
VOX
Livescience
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- The auditory system may hold the evolutionary key to T-Rex's dominance
BBC
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- How earbuds wreck your hearing
Story from the
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- Can having children wreck your hearing? Measuring real people's daily noise dose
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- How cells in the developing ear 'practice' hearing
psypost
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- Can a loud enough sound kill you?
- Alarms against under 25s?
- 8 Month old deaf baby hears for the first time
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- Dancing hair cell.
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Auditory Perception
- Why Do I Hate the Sound of My Own Voice?
Time magazine
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- Is preference for consonance over dissonance innate or cultural?
The Surprising Musical Preferences of an Amazon Tribe
The Atlantic
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- Understanding the chills and thrills of musical rapture
Guardian
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- A musician afraid of sound
The atlantic
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- The science behind 'beatboxing'
Wired
Inside Science
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- The incredible things we do during a conversation
The atlantic
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- How penguins use sound to find their chicks
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NatGeoWild
- The Neuroscience Of Musical Perception, Bass Guitars And Drake
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- How a trippy version of a Mariah Carey Christmas hit fools the brain
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- Why screams are special
- The strangest sounds in the world
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- Prof. Sophie Scott on why we laugh
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- Smart glasses translate video into sound to help the blind 'see'
newscientist
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- Sound Illusions inspired pre-historic cave art?
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- You are what you speak
newscientist
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- Auditory Neuroscience demos
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Music
- The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense
VOX
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- Elephant Seals Can Recognize Rhythm And Pitch
NPR
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- Making music from brainwaves
by 'Neurosceptic'
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- Researcher scans Sting's musical brain
medicalXpress
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- The musical harmonies you like depend on where you're from.
NewScientist
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- 'Sea Organ' uses ocean waves to make music
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- Translation of sound - RCA project with SONOS
VIMEO
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- Vanishing Languages, reincarnated as music
NYT
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- Body of songs - Music inspired by the organs of the body
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- Steve Reich's clapping music
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part of a at Queen Mary University
- Dial-tone drone -Ìý a project by the artist Aura Satz
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- polyphonic overtone singing explained
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- mongolian throat singing
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- Haydn's 'farewell' symphony (No. 45)
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ÌýWhen the symphony was written, Haydn's patron Prince Nikolaus Esterházy was resident, together with all his musicians and retinue, at his favorite summer palace at Eszterháza in rural Hungary. The stay there had been longer than expected, and most of the musicians had been forced to leave their wives back at home in Eisenstadt, about a day's journey away. Longing to return, the musicians appealed to their Kapellmeister for help. The diplomatic Haydn, instead of making a direct appeal, put his request into the music of the symphony: during the final adagio each musician stops playing, snuffs out the candle on his music stand, and leaves in turn, so that at the end, there are just two muted violins left (played by Haydn himself and his concertmaster, Luigi Tomasini ). Esterházy seems to have understood the message: the court returned to Eisenstadt the day following the performance
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open knowledge foundation
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- Touch pianist
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Sound-scapes
- 10 hours of ambient noise from an icebreaker in the frozen arctic
- The Urban Auditory Experience: Sound Awareness and Understanding our World of Sound
blog entry
- NASA’s 2020 Rover Will Carry Microphones to Mars
Scientific American
- Bat-sound library tracks biodiversity
- Why sound-scapes are critical to Architecture
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- How Sound Reveals The Invisible Within Us
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- The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds
- BBC Radio4 "The sound of Life"
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- Everbody should be quiet near a little stream
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- The soundscape of Tasmania's ancient rainforest
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- A history of the universe in sound
Ted talk
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- What does UCL sound like?
Sounds of UCL
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- What is the noisiest city in the UK?
BBC
- Why it's so difficult to turn down the volume at popular restaurants
Bloomberg
Misc
- Listening at double speed
Guardian
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- A sound that is impossible to ignore?
BBC-Future
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- The music that will make babies happy
soundofhappy
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- Inbred Songbirds Cannot Carry A Tune
Forbes
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- The secret world of Foley (Sound Effect) artists
Vimeo
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- Hearing aids and the future of wearables
The Atlantic
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- X-Ray video of a cochlear implant surgery
nerdist
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- Can 5,300-year-old mummy finally get its voice?
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- The hardest language to whisper in
....is Mandarin Chinese ()
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- Mysterious New Humpback Whale "Song" Detected?
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- 2016 'Flame Challenge': What is sound?
- The guy who hacked his hearing aid to let him listen to wifi networks
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- The truth behind kissing sounds in movies
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