Amen Break: The world’s most sampled drum beat
There’s a sample of music that’s been heard in over 2,000 songs. Odds are you’ve heard it many times and didn’t even realize you were listening to the same breakbeat. The amen break might be the most ...
29 Touko 201821min
Ultrasonic Tracking: Are our phones really listening to us?
Did you know your phone is a really good listener? Apps on your phone might be sending and receiving data over ultrasound. Ultrasonic communication is used for everything from tracking your daily habi...
14 Touko 201821min
ASMR: Why certain sounds give you tingles
Do certain sounds give you the head tingles? If yes, this episode is full of ear candy for you! In this episode, we learn all about the phenomenon called autonomous sensory meridian response—or ASMR f...
30 Huhti 201822min
Broadway to Cirque du Soleil: Sound design for the stage
Amazing concerts, Broadway musicals, Cirque du Soliel performances, and other live shows live and die on their sound design. This is the story of how sound design for live performances went from zero ...
16 Huhti 201820min
Hidden Melodies: Discovering the music in our speech
The way you speak has rhythm, timbre, and pitch. It’s more like music than you might think. We chat with The Allusionist host Helen Zaltzman, Martin Zaltz Austwick from Song by Song, Music Psychologis...
2 Huhti 201815min
Epileptic Symphonies: Turning seizures into music
Brant Guichard has heard "The Music" for as long as he can remember. Brant has a particular type of epilepsy where he hears what are called "musical auras" whenever he has a seizure. Brian Foo, aka th...
19 Maalis 201826min
Hamilton: Crafting the sound of the Broadway smash hit
Broadway’s award-winning, record-breaking, smash hit, Hamilton, is a musical unlike any other. Get the story from people in the room where it happens of how sound helps tell the musical’s story eight ...
5 Maalis 201827min
False Alarm: How the Emergency Alert System went wrong
When people in Hawaii were falsely alerted of a Ballistic Missile threat, the first thing they heard was the sound of an emergency alert. For decades, this tone has alerted us to local weather emergen...
19 Helmi 201823min
