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  • In Pictures: BBC Sound Effects Room (Circa 1920)

    In Pictures: BBC Sound Effects Room (Circa 1920)

    Wonderful picture collection of a classic BBC sound effects room. “At the BBC a sound effects room used from the 1920s onwards was full of an eclectic mix of items from bells to brooms used to create the noises that…

  • BBC Radio 4: Acoustic Ecology

    BBC Radio 4: Acoustic Ecology

    BBC Radio 4 has published a recent program produced by Helen Lennard and focused on acoustic ecology. “Peter Gibbs asks whether sound could become a vital tool in conservation, helping us understand far more about how wildlife interacts and how…

  • Brazil’s Blind Birdman

    BBC News has made a small video on the amazing work of Juan Pablo Culasso, a recordist highly sensible to nature sounds, specially those from birds. Uruguayan Juan Pablo Culasso, 29, has been blind since birth but he has become one…

  • phantom terrains

    phantom terrains

    Streams of wireless data surge from internet exchanges and cellphone relays, flowing from routers to our devices and back again. This saturation of data has become a ubiquitous part of modern life, yet it is completely invisible to us. What…

  • A Life in Sound: Chris Watson

    A Life in Sound: Chris Watson

    A selection of progammes and soundscapes featuring sound recordist Chris Watson. Listen

  • Noise: A Human History

    Noise: A Human History

    Prof David Hendy presents a 30-part series exploring the role of sound, and listening, in the past 100,000 years of human history BBC Radio 4