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Sound Matters

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...

Sound Matters Podcast Guide

Listen to Sound Matters, a Music podcast by Sound Matters. Stream 29 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Browse this show under Music podcasts.

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Episodes

20 of 29 episodes

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...

00:23:45May 10, 2020

28 – 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...

00:20:18Apr 9, 2020

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...

00:20:32Dec 19, 2019

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...

00:22:01Dec 19, 2019

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...

00:25:57Dec 19, 2019

24 – Paris, Potentially

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

00:28:59Dec 10, 2018

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...

00:25:02Oct 9, 2018

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...

00:24:32Sep 21, 2018

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...

00:32:06Aug 30, 2018

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...

00:28:04Jul 19, 2018

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...

00:22:26Jun 22, 2018

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 –...

00:27:03Apr 20, 2018

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...

00:23:33Mar 19, 2018

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...

00:31:42Oct 20, 2017

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...

00:30:23Jun 30, 2017

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...

00:27:33Jun 6, 2017

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...

00:34:42Apr 12, 2017

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...

00:28:44Mar 17, 2017

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...

00:33:45Jan 27, 2017

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What type of podcast is Sound Matters?

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