Annea Lockwood thinks of rivers as “live phenomena” that are constantly changing and shifting. She’s been drawn to the energy that rivers create, and the sound that energy makes, since she first ...

Birds may not have big brains, but they know how to navigate. They wing around town and across continents with amazing accuracy, while we watch and wonder. Biologists believe that sight, smell, and an ...

If you are looking for a way to experience nature, a group in the United Kingdom has collected woodland sounds from around the world into one unique map. Wild Rumpus, a group that produces outdoor ...

Those big ol' orange thingies you see on our Google-enabled interactive sound map are the latest updates to the audio-geography project we've been working on lately. (The previously posted voices are ...

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Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical ...

In an increasingly noisy world, designing buildings to be pleasing to our ears as well as our eyes is becoming more important. After all, buildings that are better at keeping out external noise and ...

Back when Greg J. Smith and Max Ritts launched their Toronto Sound Ecology project, for which they hiked the city and recorded its sounds for an interactive map, we asked if anyone had heard of any ...

OK, now listen to this. Any idea what it might be? You may have driven or walked on it before. Sound artist Jodi Rose recorded it with contact microphones, and then she loaded up the audio to a ...

Artists can develop different sources of inspiration into their works of art which then can bring different interpretations of these works to the art viewer. These inspirations in creating art pieces ...

Ever wanted to escape the big city hustle and just find a quiet place to sit and rest for a minute? A new project called Chatty Maps might help you find that ideal spot. The project aims to map the ...

From “Theresa May, go away” to “Trump grabs pussy, we grab back,” recent political events have played out to a soundtrack of dissent. A new project aims to preserve the sound of protest around the ...