Think about your garden. What comes to mind? Is it the color of a blooming poppy, the green sprouts of the first beans coming up? Are all your thoughts visual or do any of them include sounds? Today, ...

OK, now listen to this. Any idea what it might be? You may have driven or walked on it before. Sound artist Jodi Rose recorded it with contact microphones, and then she loaded up the audio to a ...

This National Park Service sound map displays noise pollution across the contiguous U.S. Brighter colors indicate louder areas. Got a neighbor who loves to run their deafening leaf blower at full ...

When it comes to the development of mechanical and electromechanical products, acoustic engineering presents a significant challenge. It's not simply a matter of performance – the negative impact of ...

"And the whole world loves it when you make that sound ..." --OutKast, "The Whole World" This week, Weekend Edition is taking on the globe for our Google Maps sound-mapping project. We're not trying ...

Sound! It’s a thing you hear, moreso than something you see with your eyes. And yet, it is possible to visualize sound with ...

Annea Lockwood thinks of rivers as “live phenomena” that are constantly changing and shifting. She’s been drawn to the energy that rivers create, and the sound that energy makes, since she first ...