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A (continually updated) collection of informative/interesting/weird/curious sound-related links.
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In the news
- London's Big Ben about to go silent for 4 years
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Guardian link
- Hearing Loss is a major risk factor for Dementia
- NYC subway exposes commuters to noise as loud as a jet engine
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Guardian link
- The Science Behind Hating Hillary's Voice
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The Atlantic video
- "In Pursuit of Silence" - a new documentary film
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New Scientist link
- A plan to quiet the oceans
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NYTimes link
- Musician sues Royal Opera House over ruined hearing
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BBC link
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Physics of sound
- WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
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Google deepmind link
- 7 ways the future will be quieter
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resonics link
- Making sound waves
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Scientific American link
- The coolest things sound waves do
- Visualizing sound with a 2-D Ruben's Tube.
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YouTube link
- How Sound Reveals The Invisible Within Us
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NPR Link
- Volcano sounds used to predict erruptions
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Sciencemag link
- The Differences Between Soundproofing and Sound Absorption
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UK Acoustic Systems link
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Hearing
- Hidden Hearing Loss
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Scientific American link
- How Ancient Whales Turned Sound Into a Killing Tactic
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Gizmodo link
- Vestigial Ear-Wiggling Reflex
- The auditory system may hold the evolutionary key to T-Rex's dominance
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BBC link
- How earbuds wreck your hearing
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Story from the Chicago Tribune
- Can having children wreck your hearing? Measuring real people's daily noise dose
- How cells in the developing ear 'practice' hearing
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psypost link
- Can a loud enough sound kill you?
- Alarms against under 25s?
- 8 Month old deaf baby hears for the first time
- Dancing hair cell.
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Jonathan Ashmore lab link
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Auditory Perception
- Why Do I Hate the Sound of My Own Voice?
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Time magazine link
- Is preference for consonance over dissonance innate or cultural?
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The Surprising Musical Preferences of an Amazon Tribe
The Atlantic link
- Understanding the chills and thrills of musical rapture
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Guardian link
- A musician afraid of sound
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The atlantic link
- The science behind 'beatboxing'
- The incredible things we do during a conversation
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The atlantic link
- How penguins use sound to find their chicks
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NatGeoWild link
- The Neuroscience Of Musical Perception, Bass Guitars And Drake
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NPR Link
- How a trippy version of a Mariah Carey Christmas hit fools the brain
- Why screams are special
- The strangest sounds in the world
- Prof. Sophie Scott on why we laugh
- Smart glasses translate video into sound to help the blind 'see'
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newscientist link
- Sound Illusions inspired pre-historic cave art?
- You are what you speak
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newscientist link
- Auditory Neuroscience demos
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Music
- The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense
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VOX link
- Elephant Seals Can Recognize Rhythm And Pitch
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NPR link
- Making music from brainwaves
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Blog by 'Neurosceptic'
- Researcher scans Sting's musical brain
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medicalXpress link
- The musical harmonies you like depend on where you're from.
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NewScientist link
- 'Sea Organ' uses ocean waves to make music
- Translation of sound - RCA project with SONOS
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VIMEO link
- Vanishing Languages, reincarnated as music
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NYT article
- Body of songs - Music inspired by the organs of the body
- Steve Reich's clapping music
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part of a research project at Queen Mary University
- Dial-tone drone - a project by the artist Aura Satz
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thewire link
- polyphonic overtone singing explained
- mongolian throat singing
- Haydn's 'farewell' symphony (No. 45)
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When the symphony was written, Haydn's patron Prince Nikolaus Esterházy was resident, together with all his musicians and retinue, at his favorite summer palace at Eszterháza in rural Hungary. The stay there had been longer than expected, and most of the musicians had been forced to leave their wives back at home in Eisenstadt, about a day's journey away. Longing to return, the musicians appealed to their Kapellmeister for help. The diplomatic Haydn, instead of making a direct appeal, put his request into the music of the symphony: during the final adagio each musician stops playing, snuffs out the candle on his music stand, and leaves in turn, so that at the end, there are just two muted violins left (played by Haydn himself and his concertmaster, Luigi Tomasini ). Esterházy seems to have understood the message: the court returned to Eisenstadt the day following the performance
- Cat pianos, sound houses and other imaginary musical instruments
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open knowledge foundation link
- Touch pianist
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Sound-scapes
- 10 hours of ambient noise from an icebreaker in the frozen arctic
- The Urban Auditory Experience: Sound Awareness and Understanding our World of Sound
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blog entry here
- NASA’s 2020 Rover Will Carry Microphones to Mars
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Scientific American link
- Bat-sound library tracks biodiversity
- Why sound-scapes are critical to Architecture
- How Sound Reveals The Invisible Within Us
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NPR Link
- The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds
- BBC Radio4 "The sound of Life"
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BBC 4 link
- Everbody should be quiet near a little stream
- The soundscape of Tasmania's ancient rainforest
- A history of the universe in sound
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Ted talk link
- What does UCL sound like?
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Sounds of UCL website
- What is the noisiest city in the UK?
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BBC link
- Why it's so difficult to turn down the volume at popular restaurants
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Bloomberg link
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Misc
- Listening at double speed
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Guardian link
- A sound that is impossible to ignore?
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BBC-Future link
- The music that will make babies happy
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soundofhappy link
- Inbred Songbirds Cannot Carry A Tune
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Forbes link
- The secret world of Foley (Sound Effect) artists
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Vimeo link
- Hearing aids and the future of wearables
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The Atlantic link
- X-Ray video of a cochlear implant surgery
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nerdist link
- Can 5,300-year-old mummy finally get its voice?
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story covered by CNN
- The hardest language to whisper in
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....is Mandarin Chinese (link)
- Mysterious New Humpback Whale "Song" Detected?
- 2016 'Flame Challenge': What is sound?
- The guy who hacked his hearing aid to let him listen to wifi networks
- The truth behind kissing sounds in movies