Art & Culture
What a great idea. In January 2012, Brendan Chilcutt launched the Museum of Endangered Sounds as a way to preserve the sounds made famous by his favorite old technologies and electronics equipment. Going through the different sounds in the museum will bring you back in time and let you reminisce
Architecture & Acoustic Design
In an excellent TED Talk, sound guru Julian Treasure poses the rhetorical question: "do architects have ears?". As demonstrated by the many examples he conveys in his talk, architects too often don't use their ears when they design buildings. They over-emphasize the visual experience, while negative
Health
Julian Treasure, chairman of The Sound Agency, gave an intriguing TED talk on how our increasingly noisy world impacts our health, even costing lives. He made various notable references to stats that clearly convey the magnitude of the consequences of noise. * According to the European Union, noise is reducing the
Architecture & Acoustic Design
Photo: Kevin H According to a study in the Journal of Consumer Research, working in environments surrounded by moderate levels of noise boosts creativity. The study took place in a noise environment similar to that of a roadside diner or a noisy mall and tested people’s creativity at different