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 ...

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The article ...

Optogenetics was a revolution, it’s true. It was the CRISPR/CAS9 of a few years ago. It forced mild mannered scientists everywhere to bacchanal parties. The 2010 Nature Method of the year allowed ...

In 1806, German scientist Ernst Chladni experimented with sound by making wires, columns of air, and solids vibrate. His experiments became so famous, even Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to know ...

Marie Lorenz with Rachel Golub on violin as part of ‘Flow Pool’ at Recess (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) There’s a large pool taking up most of the floor space at Recess. Built on site ...

This is a Sound & Scene Camera built by Eugene Augustin Lauste to record images and sound on film for his experiments with sound cinema. This camera, built ca. 1912-1913, was one of a number of early ...

A group of international scientists has called on Norway to halt plans for acoustic experiments on minke whales. A research team is intending to capture a dozen juvenile minke whales off the Norwegian ...