05 – New Ears And Strange Rooms
What we hear and the way we hear it has everything to do with who we are, where we are, what we are, what we can see and feel and what we know about the world around us, because we grew up in it. We t...
1 Apr 201622min
04 – Brains, Cars And Tigers
There’s a problem with your brain… well, not your brain specifically, but there’s a problem when it comes to neuroscientists understanding how your brain works when you’re listening to stuff. In the p...
11 Mar 201617min
03 – Zombie Movie Piano Music
A zombie growls, a piano plays – this episode of Sound Matters gets into a cinematic frame of mind. In it, Tim Hinman meets two exponents of sound in cinema, both of them want to control how you feel,...
11 Feb 201621min
02 – Music, Memory And Auditory Angels
"Without music we’d simply be something other than human beings.” Birthdays, weddings, festivals, funerals and more – pretty much every important human event is marked by music, and our brains take it...
28 Jan 201619min
01 – The Sound Of Life Itself
The first episode in a new series of podcasts looking at – and listening to – the sounds of the world around us. The forthcoming instalments will look at all aspects of our noisy cosmos and how we lis...
8 Jan 201626min
