Sound Matters
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
29 – The Sounds Inside Your Brain
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Making sense of sound is a biological triumph,” says Nina Kraus, professor at Northwestern University and a specialist in the biology of auditory...
28 – Sound Of The River
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
27 – Bad Vibrations
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 lis...
26 – Audio Forensics
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
25 – A Novel Sound
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“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 hi...
24 – Paris, Potentially
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ah, Paris. Unmistakeable, beautiful Paris. Paris: a place so unique – so authentic, so essentially itself – that it is truly irreplaceable. The ei...
23 – L.A. Transcendental with David Lynch
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In part seven of our Sound of the Cities mini-series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes – Sound Matter...
22 – Tick Tock Tokyo
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In part five of our Sound Of The Cities mini-series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes – we’re movin...
20 – Learning To Listen To London
19 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
18 – Untitled Noises Of New York
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the second instalment of our Sound Of The Cities series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes – Sound...
17 – Invisible Music Of Copenhagen
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
16 – The Bass, The Colour, The Mystery Of Synesthesia
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“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 ...
15 – In Search Of The Missing Sound
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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?...
14 – The Voice Of Cod
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 eart...
13 – Back To Nature (Recording)
06 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“We bombard ourselves with sound and music… it’s everywhere.” So says musician, artist and nature recordist Chris Watson who has captured soun...
12 – New Tunes From Old Bones
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 mo...
11 - Big Science & Little Creatures
17 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“I’ve spent a lot of time recently doing concerts for dogs… They’re the perfect audience.” So claimed musician, multimedia artist and film m...
10 - Sounds from Outer Space
27 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
09 – Songs For Your Brain, Lungs And Legs
22 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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
27 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
07 - The Animals Outside Your Window
06 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
05 – New Ears And Strange Rooms
01 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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
11 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a problem with your brain… well, not your brain specifically, but there’s a problem when it comes to neuroscientists understanding how y...
03 – Zombie Movie Piano Music
11 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
02 – Music, Memory And Auditory Angels
28 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"Without music we’d simply be something other than human beings.” Birthdays, weddings, festivals, funerals and more – pretty much every importan...
01 – The Sound Of Life Itself
08 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...