Acoustic World
Episodes
Can you follow the rhythm?
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
📣What is rhythm? Is it the missing link between human music and animal calls?🎤 Join us as Professor Andrea Ravignani of the Sapienza University ...
Happy holidays from Acoustic World
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Acoustic World will take a few weeks off for the holidays See you all in 2026!
Powerful sounds for tiny creatures
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are ultrasonic sounds? Why do they seem to be more common in small animals? And more importantly, how can we study and understand sounds that we ...
Duets in the canopy
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🍃Imagine you are in a forest and suddenly you hear a powerful sound too harmonious to be an insect and too loud to be a bird…🎶Meet those fasci...
Life in a speaker
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aeroplanes taking off, cars honking, people chattering… How do animals manage to communicate in urban settings? Turn up the volume for the third epi...
A choir which sounds different
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can a choir harmonise? Do animals hear a difference between octaves and so understand musical notes?Dr. Marisa Hoeschele, group leader of the “M...
(Bio)Acoustic World
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This year marks the 100th birthday of the field of Bioacoustics, established by Ivan Regen in 1925, which studies how animals hear, produce and propag...