Paul Steinbeck's Sound Experiments is a historical narrative and technical analysis of the music of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Steinbeck traces the chronology of ...

Optogenetics was a revolution, it’s true. It was the CRISPR/CAS9 of a few years ago. It forced mild mannered scientists everywhere to bacchanal parties. The 2010 Nature Method of the year allowed ...

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The article ...

In 1806, German scientist Ernst Chladni experimented with sound by making wires, columns of air, and solids vibrate. His experiments became so famous, even Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to know ...

A group of international scientists has called on Norway to halt plans for acoustic experiments on minke whales. A research team is intending to capture a dozen juvenile minke whales off the Norwegian ...

This is a light valve sound recorder designed and built by Eugene Augstin Lauste during his experimentation with sound-on-film technology ca. 1904-1913. This original piece was used to record sound on ...