Society
Openings: An Esoteric Short Story
Voices from another dimension, or glitches in the wiring? Into the Esoterics of Music (read more)
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Sound
Live at Ronnie Scott’s: Nitin Sawhney
Heavyweight vinyl, heavyweight venue, heavyweight talent (read more)
News
Sculpting Noise for Better Electronics
Creative use of noise brings bio-inspired electronic improvement (read more)
News
Sun in a Box! Storing Light in Soundwaves
University of Sydney researchers are turning optical data into readable soundwaves (read more)
Sound
Portraits: Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and Stephen O’Malley
Sunn O))) guitarist and sonic adventurer Stephen O’Malley on his latest find: Dhrupad Music (read more)
News
Booming Beats, Choice Visuals: Cave (Rave) Paintings
Acoustic scientist sounds off about the location of cave paintings (read more)
Sound
Dying Swans? Gira Calls Time at the Roundhouse
The raging soul beneath the dust and disaster. Swans sing their swansong. (read more)
News
Can We Really Do Spatial Audio? (Seeing With Your Ears)
Novel acoustics project aims to improve virtual reality and explore ear shape effects on 3-D sound (read more)
Sound
Demands will be placed on the Listener. Bitter Music (Perc)
Perc’s Bitter Music is stylistically labyrinthine, full of murky passages and the occasional dead end (read more)
News
Are You Getting Enough? (Sleep): Sleep Patterns and Sounds
Associating sleep sounds with sleep patterns provides a whole new prospect of sleep diagnostics. (read more)
News
What Makes Big Ben Bong? Acoustic Researchers Vibe Westminster
Engineers reveal why Big Ben produces distinct tone (read more)
News
The Lego Synthesiser: Sound Shaping Metamaterial Developed
Sound-shaping super-material invented (read more)
Sound
Dedicated to the Bird We Love (Oriental Sunshine, Vinyl)
Round Two records unearth a rare (and unlikely) Norwegian psychedelic folk sitar rock album. Yes they do. (read more)
News
What Does Anger Sound Like to Children?
Researchers pair acoustical analysis with brain mapping to understand how children process emotion in speech (read more)
News
Why ‘Put the bin out’ Sounds Like ‘Open a Beer’. Gender and Vocal Attractiveness
New research suggests that men and women perceive consonants differently (read more)
Sound
Loitered Lens: Soweto Kinch
Evocative imagery from the launch of Soweto Kinch’s Nonagram album at the Camden Roundhouse (read more)
News
Cow Goes Moo: Disney’s Artificial Intelligence Project Gets Ears
Artificial intelligence-based system associates images with sounds (read more)
Society
Between Noise and Silence: A Retrospective (Steven M. Miller)
A master of creating sonic tableaux as resonant as a painter’s colours and forms (read more)
Sound
Outside of the music, it’s a little quiet…. Dead Light (Interview)
Dead Light, makers of 2016’s intricate electro/ambient/classical apogee, discuss their debut album. (read more)
Features
Snare Drum Love: Interview (Le Spectre)
Le Spectre’s Yann Levasseur talks about simply trying to be creative and dark (read more)
Sound
Overwhelming and Almost Annihilating Awe: Dark Matter (Lustmord)
Lustmord draws upon an audio library of cosmological activity to confront us with deep, cosmic time (read more)
News
Get Yo Head Out Da Bassbin! Moving Objects With Acoustics Alone
Dances with waves: Breakthrough in moving small objects using acoustics (read more)
News
Aphex Fin. Zoologists Reveal the Only Other Animal That Can Keep a Beat
Ronan the sea-lion: Best beat-keeper in the animal kingdom (read more)
Sound
SHXCXCHCXSH SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (Yes, really)
Genuinely memorable music, if a difficult name to remember – Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH release SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (read more)
News
How We Hear (and it’s Not All in the Ear)
Study shows auditory cortex of hearing and deaf people are nearly identical (read more)
News
Acoustic Researchers Rid Golf Courses of Clanging Bores (well, some of them)
Acousticians track down the reason a type of driver creates a loud clang when it strikes the ball (read more)
Sound
Like circuit bending, but with more control: Interview (Weightausend)
Weightausend discusses hijacking obsolete digital sound modules, hash-induced panic attacks, and Doctor Who (read more)
Sound
‘More alike than we are different’. noeverything I AM (Interview)
Their music blends innovative electronics, pop-influenced sweetness, and spiritual elements. Codex Europa interviews noeverything. (read more)
Sound
Make Better Music 79: The Art of Remixing (Part One)
A luxurious wonderland of musical mystery and adventure that both complements and embellishes (read more)
Art
Scenes & Sonics (National Gallery)
Six very different musicians/sound artists/composers each select a work from the National’s collection and create a soundtrack to accompany it. (read more)