21 – Resonating In Reykjavik
In part five of our Sound Of The Cities mini-series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes – we’re moving away from the noisy sensory overload of megacities. We...
30 Aug 201832min
20 – Learning To Listen To London
For millennia our hearing has acted as our early warning system. It worked well out in the relative silence of nature: a bird calling out against a predator; the snap of a twig in a deep forest, and s...
19 Juli 201828min
19 – Decibels Of New Delhi
Can listening be a creative act? In the third instalment of our Sound Of The Cities series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes – Sound Matters podcast immer...
22 Juni 201822min
18 – Untitled Noises Of New York
In the second instalment of our Sound Of The Cities series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes – Sound Matters podcast jumps into the deepest of the deep en...
20 Apr 201827min
17 – Invisible Music Of Copenhagen
So many of us live in the hustle and bustle of cities – vibrant, lively but noisy and distracting soundscapes. How do we exist among this noise? How do we listen through it to the smaller sounds, the ...
19 Mars 201823min
16 – The Bass, The Colour, The Mystery Of Synesthesia
“Monday’s yellow, Tuesday’s brown, Wednesday’s blue, Thursday’s light brown… If you ask people where lemons are on a piano, they will all put their hands at the top of the keyboard…” That’s Nick Ryan,...
8 Dec 201729min
15 – In Search Of The Missing Sound
If you’re under thirty then you’ve probably listened to more music in a compressed digital format than anything else – and that’s fine, right? It’s never gotten in the way of the music that moves you....
20 Okt 201731min
14 – The Voice Of Cod
Sounds behave very differently underwater than they do back on land – it’s a whole other kettle of fish down there you might say. What’s an earthquake sound like underwater? Do whales like music? What...
30 Juni 201730min
