noise

  • ‘Here’, A Wireless System That Lets You “Control” What You Hear

    Here – Active Listening, project at Kickstarter: HERE IS A WIRELESS INTERACTIVE LISTENING SYSTEM Through two truly wireless, in-ear buds and a smartphone app, Here allows you to instantly control real world audio so you can hear what you want to…

  • New Book: Keywords in Sound, a conceptual lexicon for sound studies

    Duke University Press has a announced a new book dedicated to sound studies, edited by David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny. Will be available on April 17. In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents…

  • Millions of People at Risk of Hearing Loss

    Millions of People at Risk of Hearing Loss

    The unsafe use of personal audio devices and high sound volumes at events are putting over a billion teens and young adults at risk of permanent hearing loss, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday. Data analyzed by the UN…

  • ::vtol:: – oil

    ::vtol:: – oil

    The main idea of this project is to present exhibition visitors with the chance to destroy any object that might happen to be on their person, in order to transform it into a unique sound production. The installation consists of…

  • Oceanoise 2015

    Oceanoise 2015

    OCEANOISE2015, a symposium to be hosted (11-15 May) in Vilanova i la Geltrú (around 40km South from Barcelona, Spain) by the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics (LAB) of the Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech. The growing scientific and societal concern about the…

  • Measuring Sound in New York in the 40’s

    Measuring Sound in New York in the 40’s

    The high levels of noise pollution in New York City instigated the formation of a noise abatement commission. Steven explains how innovator Harvey Fletcher became part of this movement and created a roving ‘noise laboratory’ that measured the amount of…