Sound Matters
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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 sounds that happen in our noisy cosmos, how we listen to them, the stories we tell about them, and all the ideas, i...
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29 Episoden29 – 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 auditory lea...
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, breathing human...
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 about his new...
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 specifically in...
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 bear to liste...
24 – Paris, Potentially
Ah, Paris. Unmistakeable, beautiful Paris. Paris: a place so unique – so authentic, so essentially itself – that it is truly irreplaceable. The eighth...
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 Matters po...
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 travel. In...
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 moving away...
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 against a pr...
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 and their c...
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 – Sound Mat...
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 noise? How d...
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 put their ha...
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, right? It’s ne...
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 earthquake...
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 sounds for n...
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 mere mort...
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 maker, Laur...
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 lift off int...
09 – Songs For Your Brain, Lungs And Legs
How is it possible that listening to music can make your legs, heart and lungs work better? Our podcast series Sound Matters returns for another eight...
08 – The Good, The Bad And The Smelly
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 bad sound...
07 - The Animals Outside Your Window
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 birds chirping...
06 - Snowflakes And Metal Hammers
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 Coppier sn...
05 – New Ears And Strange Rooms
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 know about t...
04 – Brains, Cars And Tigers
There’s a problem with your brain… well, not your brain specifically, but there’s a problem when it comes to neuroscientists understanding how your br...
03 – Zombie Movie Piano Music
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 sound in...
02 – Music, Memory And Auditory Angels
"Without music we’d simply be something other than human beings.” Birthdays, weddings, festivals, funerals and more – pretty much every important huma...
01 – The Sound Of Life Itself
The first episode in a new series of podcasts looking at – and listening to – the sounds of the world around us. The forthcoming instalments will look...