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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Sound Matters
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...
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20 of 29 episodes28 – Sound Of The River
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...
25 – A Novel Sound
“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...
26 – Audio Forensics
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...
27 – Bad Vibrations
Music. Oh, beautiful, uplifting, inspiring music. We all love music. Thing is, we all love different types of music, and generally can’t bea...
24 – Paris, Potentially
Ah, Paris. Unmistakeable, beautiful Paris. Paris: a place so unique – so authentic, so essentially itself – that it is truly irreplaceable....
23 – L.A. Transcendental with David Lynch
In part seven of our Sound of the Cities mini-series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes – Sound...
22 – Tick Tock Tokyo
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...
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 m...
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 ag...
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 a...
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 –...
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 no...
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 pu...
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, righ...
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...
13 – Back To Nature (Recording)
“We bombard ourselves with sound and music… it’s everywhere.” So says musician, artist and nature recordist Chris Watson who has captured so...
12 – New Tunes From Old Bones
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...
11 - Big Science & Little Creatures
“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...
10 - Sounds from Outer Space
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...