Mini Episode: Classical Musicians Are Human, Too
There’s an uncomfortable genre of bootleg classical music recordings floating around the internet. They’re big, public bloopers by professional musici...
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Sound is energy. It’s intimate and startling and immediate. Each episode of Sound Show explores one topic in sound, like music, film, silence, or communication. Every week we talk to the people who make and hear the strangest, most interesting sounds in that topic.
7: The Music Genome Project Hasn’t Failed Yet
From the beginning, Pandora has banked on a proprietary music rating system called the Music Genome Project. It involves rating songs on hundreds of a...
6: Scenes From an Italian Astronaut
Back in October 2016, researchers at George Mason University published a report on the peculiar distribution of airport noise complaints. The most lop...
5: Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?
You can barely hear it, but it's there; each year on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve," amid the ruckus of Times Square in the moments after midni...
4: It's All In Your Head
This week we're messing with your head. We've all seen optical illusions, but it turns out there are auditory illusions, as well: sounds that exploit ...
3: The Audience Is Listening
Today, we bring you two stories about movie sounds. First, the story behind Deep Note, the iconic audio logo for THX, and how it was almost lost forev...
2: Hear People Die
Hearpeopledie is an offshoot of a subreddit called watchpeopledie, which is for videos of graphic violence. Audio, however, is a little more hardcore....
1: What Comes After Hamilton?
The hip-hop theater scene has been around for a while, but it’s been launched into the spotlight by the recent success of the musical Hamilton. In its...
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