"The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound." from Wikipedia.

"The radical, syndicated program 'Radiolab' creates striking sound effects to communicate big ideas. List to excerpts in this sonic gallery."

"A tiny radio show that explores the 99% invisible activity that shapes the design of our world."

"A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower." from Wikipedia.

audio.js is a drop-in javascript library that allows HTML5's <audio> tag to be used anywhere.

"Field Studies 2010 is a four-day field-recording workshop led by three acclaimed sound artists and composers. It aims to explore recording as a creative and practical tool for artists, architects and urbanists, and the possibilities of working with sound as a means to engage with places and people."

Solar system music box.

"The sounds were made by converting the accelerometer data to WAV file and then finally to mp3. These vibrations are extremely low frequency, much lower than the human ear can hear. In order to hear these vibrations, engineers have sped them up about 1,000 times, much like playing a tape in fast forward on an old tape recorder."

The sun is crackling with solar flares now as a very large sunspot continues to circle our star. from wired.

adaptable, minimalist interfaces

the world of acoustic pest detection.

Acoustic ecology studies were established in the 1960s by naturalist R. Murray Schafer and his colleagues at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia as an attempt to define the relationship between humans and their environment, as mediated through sound. With a focus that spans both science and art, the continuum of acoustic ecology often attracts individuals who are part researcher, part composer, and part adventurer. from seed.

Dust-to-Digital's mission is to produce high-quality, cultural artifacts, which combine rare, essential recordings with historic images and detailed texts describing the artists and their works.

First Sounds is an informal collaborative of audio historians, recording engineers, sound archivists, scientists, other individuals, and organizations who aim to make mankind's earliest sound recordings available to all people for all time.

Sound sound™. Hand-crafted sound systems for iPod.

Wild Sanctuary is home to the largest private archive of natural sound.

21.08.09 - Rehearsal Tapes – 16:44 - 196 kpbs [VBR]

Inspired by the historic coastline of Aldeburgh and its surrounding area including Aldeburgh Music's Snape Proms and its history, Touch will create a new audio-visual symphony from scratch, using only locally sourced sounds and images.

Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson investigates the man-made noise pollution which is becoming increasingly invasive in our lives and in our environment, affecting both humans and wildlife.

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

a monthly publication of experimental and electronic music-related reviews, interviews, and articles.

Bacterial Orchestra (2006) is a self-organizing evolutionary musical organism. The installation consists of several audio cells. Every cell listens to its surroundings and picks up sounds, trying to play together in a musical way. The musical material comes from the background noise, people talking or sounds played by other cells.

quality audio software for Mac OS X.

create your own podcast.

how deafness influences web accessibility. from a list apart.

using sound as a metric to look at ecosystem dynamics. from wired.

guide to recordings. from wire.

biophony and anthrophony.

and the workings of the human brain.

in the age of the mp3, sound quality is worse than ever. from rolling stone.

sounds from saturn.