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What would those in the know like others understand about listening? ¿Qué entenderían acerca de escuchar aquellos que saben como los demás?
Headlines
Virtual ‘Sound Garden’ coming to Grand Marais Harbor Park – Boreal
Listening Bars in Vegas? – Reddit
Will Video Kill the Audio Star in 2025?
Science is making it possible to ‘hear’ nature. It does more talking than we knew – Guardian
Eloquent listening – Steve Levenger
Listening for Silence With the Headphones Off
AirPods could revolutionize what it means to be hard of hearing
A Thing Heard: Four Ways of Listening
How to be a good listener: the experts’ guide
The sound of fear: From long range protester-deterring acoustic devices to military drones – ABC News
Mapping Europe’s quiet areas
Unprecedented $100 million to SETI – EarthSky
Biosphere Landscapes Launching
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Sit Back and Listen – EveryONE
Sound Tourism: The Coolest Sounds to Hear While Traveling – WanderingJustin.com
Sound and Memory. We need an Instagram – Joanne McNeil/Medium
The trees have ears to eavesdrop in Yosemite – Washington Post
Elsewhere on the Web
Sounds of Australia – 2026 Sounds
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)
Acoustical Society of America – Journal – Explore Sound
biospheresoundscapes.org
Locus Sonus
Recommended Listening
If you are listening – The world is on fire. There’s a coup. A former president is being indicted. Inflation is through the roof, and AI is taking our jobs. What does it all mean? Each week, Matt Bevan explains the biggest story in world news while hiding in his basement from assassins and authoritarian regimes.
Permeate: Anthony Magen – Taking to the city on foot, Miyuki Jokiranta and Anthony Magen explore one of its often overlooked qualities: sound.
Harnessed: Mark Changizi – Why should we humans have evolved to have produce things such as language, music and the arts as distinct from our cousins? Evolutionary biologist Mark Changizi believes the answer lies in the fact that our language and culture actually imitates nature. He calls it ‘nature-harnessing’.
Listening to country – If you could listen to country, what would you hear? Is it a hum, an echo or a chorus? In this program we explore the concept of ‘deep listening’ as it relates to Aboriginal notions of country. We join the artist Vicki Couzens, the musician Lou Bennett and the educator Dr Doris Paton and find out what deep, respectful listening means to them. Some say the concept of ‘deep listening’ is being alert to everything – even silence. But is it too abstract – or is it a way to deepen the conversation?
Say that again – tales of noisy nosh – So many of our modern eateries are built with reflective surfaces, floor included. So when a place heats up the last thing you can hear is the person sitting across the table.
In the Presence of Elephants and Whales – We were made and set here, the writer Annie Dillard once wrote, “to give voice to our astonishments.” Katy Payne is a renowned acoustic biologist with a Quaker sensibility. And she’s found her astonishment in listening to two of the world’s most exotic creatures. She has decoded the language of elephants and was among the first scientists to discover that whales are composers of song.
World Listening Project and Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology
World Listening Project (WLP) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to understanding the world and its natural environment, societies and cultures through the practices of listening and field recording. The WLP was founded in 2008 and is supported by the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology.
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Microphones
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Sonification
What does a black hole sound like? NASA has an answer
Wikipedia
Wildlife Sound Recording Society
wildlife-sound.org
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https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/liquid-architecture/id1501072515
Recorders
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frontierlabs.com.au
Tinnitus
Phantom percepts: Tinnitus and pain as persisting aversive memory networks
Tinnitus seems linked with sleep – understanding how could bring us closer to finding a cure
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Tinnitus: tormented by noise – The word ‘tinnitus’ has a lovely, tinkly ring to it. In reality it’s debilitating to have loud and constant sound ringing in your ears. What is tinnitus? How do you get it? Can you get rid of it?
Science with Chris Smith: Tinnitus – Beethoven was one of the world’s greatest composers, but he was also plagued by Tinnitus – a condition where someone hears a range of noises in their head.
Listening to Blade Runner
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Videos
Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears
Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space
Quotes
Now I will do nothing but listen.
– Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
Listening Bingo
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Features
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