The Rest Is Just Noise

We've talked about "musical drones" in one of our previous episodes. Well, this time we decided to investigate this idea a bit further as we look into Melbourne's underground and seek out the soundsca...

27 Sep 202249min

Today we're bringing you right into the conversation with us by recording the episode on a binaural head. We're going to be speaking with a Professor in Psychology Mats Nilsson about his work on stu...

26 Jul 202237min

How much is a decibel worth? Can you put a price on sound quality? From house prices to heart attacks, from airplane noise to church bells, sound costs us money and years of our lives but can also b...

28 Jun 202257min

The lockdowns due to COVID-19 had a huge impact on our urban environments and the sounds of our cities. In one of our recent publications we wanted to have a look at not just how much did those sound ...

31 Mai 202233min

Notre-Dame de Paris is famous for its music - from the famous bells to its three pipe organs. But did you know the building itself has influenced how Western music developed? Today (actually nearly fi...

20 Apr 202233min

In early December 2021 our host Andrew attended the Seattle meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and now walks us through the highlights of the conference. We talked about electric vehicles ad...

12 Apr 202232min

Throughout the last year, we've seen a whole bunch of articles, projects and research about how much urban noise was reduced due to COVID-19 lockdowns. This is our 2nd episode in a series looking at t...

11 Jan 202237min

This week Andrew is at the Acoustical Society of America conference in Seattle. Throughout the week, our goal is to bring you some highlights about the talks he found most interesting. At the end of i...

2 Des 202119min