29 – The Sounds Inside Your Brain
“Making sense of sound is a biological triumph,” says Nina Kraus, professor at Northwestern University and a specialist in the biology of au...
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Bang & Olufsen presents Sound Matters: a series of podcasts looking at – and listening to – all the sounds of the world around us. Forthcoming instalments will investigate all kinds of sound...
“Making sense of sound is a biological triumph,” says Nina Kraus, professor at Northwestern University and a specialist in the biology of au...
This is the story of a river. Not just any river, but a very special river. One that has been given the same legal status as a living, breat...

“It’s a description of the next record that I will never make,” so relates UK based composer, DJ and artist Matthew Herbert, telling us abou...

True crime podcasts are almost a cliche nowadays. But in terms of niches, there’s still some cache in the sound of true crime, or more speci...

Music. Oh, beautiful, uplifting, inspiring music. We all love music. Thing is, we all love different types of music, and generally can’t bea...

Ah, Paris. Unmistakeable, beautiful Paris. Paris: a place so unique – so authentic, so essentially itself – that it is truly irreplaceable....

In part seven of our Sound of the Cities mini-series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes – Sound...

Us humans preserve our experiences in recordings. And when we revisit these texts, images and sounds, it can feel like a small form of time...

In part five of our Sound Of The Cities mini-series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes – we’re m...

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 ag...

Can listening be a creative act? In the third instalment of our Sound Of The Cities series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments a...

In the second instalment of our Sound Of The Cities series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes –...

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 no...

“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 pu...

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, righ...

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...

“We bombard ourselves with sound and music… it’s everywhere.” So says musician, artist and nature recordist Chris Watson who has captured so...

Some sounds go back… way back. In this edition of Sound Matters, we travel to a time before music was music, when man-made sounds allowed us...

“I’ve spent a lot of time recently doing concerts for dogs… They’re the perfect audience.” So claimed musician, multimedia artist and film m...

Outer space is a vacuum – it’s full of a whole lot of nothing – so it’s pretty quiet out there. Or is it? Sit back, strap yourself in and li...

How is it possible that listening to music can make your legs, heart and lungs work better? Our podcast series Sound Matters returns for ano...

How can you tell the difference between a good sound and a bad sound? There’s not much that’s more annoying than to be forced to listen to a...

Have a listen to the sounds going on outside your window. What can you hear? A car passing by, maybe an airplane flying overhead, a few bird...

What’s the sound of snow falling? The question might sound like a riddle or the start of some joke but for composer and sound designer Yann...

What we hear and the way we hear it has everything to do with who we are, where we are, what we are, what we can see and feel and what we kn...

There’s a problem with your brain… well, not your brain specifically, but there’s a problem when it comes to neuroscientists understanding h...

A zombie growls, a piano plays – this episode of Sound Matters gets into a cinematic frame of mind. In it, Tim Hinman meets two exponents of...

"Without music we’d simply be something other than human beings.” Birthdays, weddings, festivals, funerals and more – pretty much every impo...

The first episode in a new series of podcasts looking at – and listening to – the sounds of the world around us. The forthcoming instalments...