Ways of Knowing
Episodes
Ways of Knowing 08: Ethics of Technology
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 8 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington...
Ways of Knowing 07: Glitches
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 7 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington...
Ways of Knowing 06: Sound Studies
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 6 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington...
Ways of Knowing 05: Abstract Pattern Recognition, or Math
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 5 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington...
Ways of Knowing 04: Global Disability Studies
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington...
Ways of Knowing 03: Ge'ez
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington...
Ways of Knowing 02: Paratext
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington...
Ways of Knowing 01: Digital Humanities
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 1 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington...
Media Objects 06: Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the previous episode, we heard how so-called artificial intelligence is being sold to the public as a revolutionary, inevitable technology that is ...
Media Objects 05: Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With today’s so-called generative artificial intelligence, we’re being told that we have finally arrived. We’re now beginning to build true “t...
Media Objects 04: Typewriters
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Text written with a typewriter is not the same as text written by hand, composed on a computer, sent in a text message, or generated by artificial int...
Media Objects 03: Buttons
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We increasingly interact with the world through the binary, on/off medium of buttons—from keyboards and appliances, to the digital interfaces of pho...
Media Objects 02: Containers
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While extensions are masculine coded and deal with tools that extend what human beings already do, containers offer a different and more feminine conc...
Media Objects 01: Extensions
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writing is an extension of our voice, cars of our legs, guns of our fists, telephones of our ears, televisions of our eyes…Marshall McLuhan consider...
Media Objects: Intro
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re surrounded by media—not just when we look at our phones, turn on the TV, or get on the internet. Everything from Tupperware and office plant...
The Imaginary 04: The U.S. Constitution
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While the U.S. Constitution is constantly invoked to justify how the country should be governed, it actually provides very few specifics on how that s...
The Imaginary 03: Utopia
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Given the option to plug into a world totally free from conflict and struggle, most would choose to remain in their current reality. A true utopia wou...
The Imaginary 02: The Knowledge Argument
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If a person spends their entire life seeing only in black and white, is it possible for them to truly know what it would be like to experience color? ...
The Imaginary 01: Poetry of Perception
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Media are increasingly monopolizing attention: Your mind is prevented from wandering, from generating thoughts, having associations, coming up with id...
Ways of Knowing: An Inexact Science
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Science is not some purely rationalist endeavor that exists in an isolated realm of objective observations and hard data that can deliver absolute tru...
Listening Experience 01: Transposition
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first in a 9-part series dedicated to deep, intentional listening. Episodes of "The Listening Experience" will be released about every four months...
Cosmic Visions 11: Sounds of Space
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There's a lot to hear in outer space if you change the way you listen.
Cosmic Visions 10: Sonic Gravity
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of how gravitational waves were finally discovered and how we are making sense of them.
Cosmic Visions 09: Picturing the Universe
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the most iconic images we have of the universe closely resemble 19th-century landscape paintings of the American West. A big part of the reaso...
Cosmic Visions 08: Dante's Universe
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the telescopes of the 20th century, astronomers began to see a universe that just so happened to resemble the cosmos as described by a 13th centu...
Cosmic Visions 07: Aliens
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An observational error in the 19th century leads to a belief that there is an advanced alien civilization on Mars...which leads to a boom in astronomy...
Cosmic Visions 06: Kepler's Fiction
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Somnium" is considered one of the first pieces of science fiction. The short story, written in 1608, recounts a trip up to the moon. There are magica...
Cosmic Visions 05: Deep Patterns
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Near the end of the 11th century CE, there was a crisis in China’s Song Dynasty. The imperial calendars were filled with errors. To fix them, the im...
Cosmic Visions 04: The Mayan Zero
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 9th century CE, Mayan astronomers were able to calculate the period of Venus down to the minute. They were only able to achieve this unrivaled ...
Cosmic Visions 03: The Beautiful Order
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 6th Century BCE, Ancient Greeks began thinking about the cosmos in a fundamentally new way. Their novel approach led them to believe the things...
Cosmic Visions 02: Babylonian Astrology
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some four thousand years ago, Babylonians began collecting celestial data for what is arguably the longest-running project in the history of science.
Cosmic Visions 01: Moon Stories
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 1: Storytelling was one of the earliest ways humans tried to make sense of the heavens. The first object of major study was the moon, and that...
Cosmic Visions: Intro
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new podcast about the history of astronomy
Ways of Knowing: Reading
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 1 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This epis...
Ways of Knowing: Close Reading
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This epis...
Ways of Knowing: Close Reading Redux
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 3 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episod...
Ways of Knowing: Environmental Humanities
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 4 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This epis...
Ways of Knowing: Disability Studies
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 5 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This epis...
Ways of Knowing: Visual Literacy
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 6 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This epis...
Ways of Knowing: Material Culture
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 7 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This epis...
Ways of Knowing: Translation
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 8 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This epis...
Ways of Knowing: Translation Redux
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 9 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington.
Listening Club Promo
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're launching a virtual audio salon June 2! Details here: https://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/listening-club
Outside In Waves
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A preview of our Outside In show this Thursday! Get tickets at www.theworldaccordingtosound.org
Centennial Sounds Preview
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tickets to this listening event at https://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/tickets/centennial-sounds
Solitude
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
These sounds are all part of our Solitude show on March 10th. Get tickets at https://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/tickets/solitude
Time
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
These sounds are all part of our Time show on January 20th. Get tickets at https://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/tickets/time
Bodies
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
These sounds are all part of our Bodies show on February 17th. Get tickets at https://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/tickets/bodies
Transposition
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
These sounds are all part of our Transposition show on January 27th. Get tickets at www.theworldaccordingtosound.org
Winter Listening Series 2022 –– Trailer
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Come listen with us, starting January 6, 2022! https://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/tickets
HWGH Part 9: Where We Go From Here
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 9 in a three-hour radio documentary about why workers in America are so disempowered and precarious.
HWGH Part 8: A Bad Gig
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 8 in a three-hour radio documentary about why workers in America are so disempowered and precarious.
HWGH Part 7: A Nation In Debt
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 7 of a three-hour documentary about why workers in America are so disempowered and precarious.
HWGH Part 6: Coping Mechanisms
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 6 in a three-hour documentary about why workers in America are so isolated and disempowered.
HWGH Part 5: The Road To Shareholder Capitalism
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 5 in a three-hour documentary about the disempowerment of American workers.
HWGH Part 4: Fissuring the Workplace
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 4 in a three-hour radio documentary about how executives and shareholders have undermined workers in America.
HWGH Part 3: The Attack on Worker Power
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How We Got Here Part 3
HWGH Part 2: Obscure Laws And The Erosion of Benefits
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of a three-hour documentary about the way shareholders and managers have undermined and isolated workers over the last 50 years.
HWGH Part 1: The ‘Great Risk Shift’ From Companies To Workers
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1 of a three-hour radio documentary about how shareholders and managers have undermined and isolated workers over the last 50 years.
126 – Winter Listening Series
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us every Thursday night starting 12/3/20 for over an hour of immersive, intentional listening. Go to theworldaccordingtosound.org for tickets!
125 – Sound Break: Weekend
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Proto musique concrète.
124 – Sound Break: Amphibians
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listening to animals that no longer exist.
123 – Sound Break: Ultrasonics
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Reaching the heights of hearing, yoked to the glorious streams of insect song.
122 – Sound Break: Antiphonal Duets
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An ornithic call and response.
121 – Sound Break: Avian Slow Jams
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you would please just not sing so fast!
120 – Sound Break: Sound Consultant
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Designing products not with your eyes, but with your ears.
119 – Digital Waterfall
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rebuilding white noise one wavelength at a time
118 – Sound Break: Sonorous Deserts
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The sound of emptiness.
117 – Sound Break: Egypt
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Historical reconstruction through sound.
116 – Sound Break: Sand
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
116 – Sound Break: Sand by The World According to Sound
115 – Sound Break: Long-necked Ungulates
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Utterly stupefying and unexpected.
114 – Sound Break: Hagia Sophia
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recreating extinct environments.
113 – Sound Break: Mudpots
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A director's cut of our very first episode.
112 – Sound Break: En Garde!
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Parry, parry, thrust!
111 – Sound Break: Kinetic Equine
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's good to get exercise even when you're confined indoors.
110 – Sound Break: Speed Talking
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Winged words!
109 – Sound Break: Historic Keyboards
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The keyboard from 1750ish to the present.
108 – Sound Break: Melliferous Swarms
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sweet nectar of the gods!
107 – Sound Break: Metronomics
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Unleash the metronomes.
106 – Sound Break: Icthyian Chorus
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Singing underwater.
105 – Sound Break: Numbers
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The eeriness of numbers.
104 – Sound Break: The Infinitesimal
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
And to every thing that creepeth upon the earth...
103 – Sound Break: Notes
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Modern-day note-taking.
102 – Sound Break: Yellowstone
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An artifice of ambient nature.
101 – Sound Break: Ferrier
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From the forge of Hephaestus himself. Or something like that.
100 – Sound Break: Physical Exertion
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A very particular piece of the soundscape of sports.
99 – Sound Break: Moog
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The mother of all synths.
98 – Sound Break: Pipe Organ
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dissecting the organ, pipe-box by pipe-box.
97 – Sound Break: Mechanisms
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Motion rendered as sound.
96 – Sound Break: Hockey
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sports must go on!
95 – Sound Break: Space
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Some time out to listen.
94 – Skeeters
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When you're given the opportunity to stick your hands holding two microphones (ORTF stereo) through a mesh net into a cage swarming with mosquitos, yo...
93 – The Beetles
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"You're nothing but skin and bones!" cried Gregor Samsa.
92 – Voice Over
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A drawback of being sighted: your brain can't keep up with winged words.
91 – Cheese
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Machinery and processes...team WATS is into them right now. This week: milk, curds, bacteria, and mold.
90 – Wrap It Up
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I'd like my vegetables with a side of plastic wrap, please.
89 – Brew Ha
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listening to that rarest of grapes: a factory in the U.S.
88 – Sk(etch)
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Write me some music!
87 – Sound Audio: Joe Frank
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An original audio storyteller.
86 – Sound Audio: Coast to Coast
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Oh the things you hear in the middle of the night on AM radio.