How would you identify Northeast Winter by sound? In uncertain times, the seasons' reliable sounds offer comfort.

(1) IN reading acoustical literature, it is, at times, difficult to avoid an impression that the publication of Rayleigh's masterly treatise, “The Theory of Sound”, tended to exert a harmful ...

As species disappear, so do their voices—natural melodies that have echoed for centuries. These are the 10 most endangered sounds of nature, and why we might never hear them again. 1. The Call of the ...

Yosuke Fujita makes music inspired by his neighbors the trees. “My house is in the mountains,” the Japanese sound artist explained in a 2023 interview with cultural programmers National Sawdust.

Here we examine a lesser-known example of perceptual constancy involving the auditory system, loudness constancy with varying sound source distance. Loudness is a perceptual attribute, and thus ...