If you want to understand the future of interfaces, use your ears. Sound design has become a wildly experimental area in recent years, full of devices that ask us to reconsider how we interact with ...

Headphones can give the inaccurate impression that sounds are coming from inside the head Thanks to the ubiquity of mobile devices, millions of people use headphones to listen to their favourite music ...

Paul Steinbeck's Sound Experiments is a historical narrative and technical analysis of the music of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Steinbeck traces the chronology of ...

Michael Plitkins is cofounder and CTO of Spatial. Founded in 2017, Spatial's virtual soundscapes are redefining the human experience. Sound has the power to move us. Whether it be a single listener or ...

Why do objects make different sounds? Science Guy Rick Crosslin joined us to talk about the science of sounds. Sound is energy. Sound is vibration, if an object can vibrate it can make a sound. Big ...

We live surrounded by sound, much of it muted by habit and routine – the drum of keyboards, the glissandi of elevators, the hum of a refrigerator, the accents and rhythms in nature. Gustavo Matamoros ...

For the first time, researchers were able to transmit, or "tunnel," sound waves across extremely small distances between two crystals in a vacuum. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Researchers are working on technologies to replace the audio descriptions that help visually impaired people enjoy TV shows and films. Dr Mariana Lopez, from Anglia Ruskin University, is leading the ...

Heat is not supposed to behave like this. In everyday life, warmth seeps and diffuses, spreading from hot to cold in a slow, ...

THE ARTS: Guitars played horizontally made compelling listening and won the approval of the audience at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, writes Michael Dervan It seems perfectly normal ...

Researchers who study how the brain processes sound have discovered the common practice of using artificial tones in perception experiments could mean scientists are overlooking important and ...

Thanks to the ubiquity of mobile devices, millions of people use headphones to listen to their favourite music, radio shows and TV programmes. But headphones can give the inaccurate impression that ...