Sound Recordings
How Mozart Outsold Beyonce in CD Sales in 2016
A massive new box set catpulted the classical superstar to the top of the charts
The Only Live News Report from the Attack on Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, an NBC radio affiliate in Honolulu made an urgent phone call to New York. In it, he begins to describe the attack on Pearl Harbor
The Christmas Tale Spoken Record That Launched the Audiobook
Narrated by Dylan Thomas, the album would go on to sell 400,000 copies
Researchers Are Recording New York to Make it Quieter
A high-tech aural map could reduce noise nuisances throughout the city
Why Certain Songs Get Stuck in Our Heads
A survey of 3,000 people reveals that the most common earworms share a fast tempo, unusual intervals and simple rhythm
How Bats Ping On the Wing—And Look Cute Doing It
Researchers reveal how bats turn echolocation signals into a 3-D image of moving prey
This Is What 18th-Century Paris Sounded Like
A bygone age comes back to life in this painstaking reconstruction of the sounds of 1739
Hear the Recreated Voice of Ötzi the Iceman
Using CT scans of the Neolithic man's vocal tract, Italian researchers have approximated the way he pronounced his vowels
You, Too, Could Own a Copy of the Voyager Golden Record
Ozma records is producing a box set of the album sent into the cosmos to reach out to potential extraterrestrial life
Watch Acoustic Holograms Create Complex Shapes and Levitate Droplets
These mesmarizing effects are created using only a plastic 3-D printed plate and speaker
This Is What Jupiter Sounds Like
Listen as Juno bursts into the gas giant’s magnetosphere
Listen to Robert Frost Read His Poems
Recordings offer a chance to really listen to the meaning behind classics like "The Road Not Taken"
Who's Laughing Now? Listeners Can Tell if Laughers are Friends or Not
We laugh differently with friends, and the reasons may lie deep in our social evolution
This Sound Might Mean Dinnertime in the Deep Sea
Researchers record a chorus of deep sea animals as they migrate through the ocean
Mysterious “Music” Spooked Apollo 10 Astronauts
Archival audio reveals eerie sounds heard by astronauts on the dark side of the moon
Listen to J.R.R. Tolkien Read Songs and Poems from 'The Lord of the Rings'
A rare recording captures the famed author's voice
Listen to Never-Before-Released Tracks From Frank Sinatra’s Earliest Years on the Radio
You haven’t heard Ol’ Blue Eyes quite like this
Now Available: The Ultimate Old-Timey Playlist
Listen to digitized recordings of wax cylinders, an obsolete technology that revives turn-of-the-century culture
Scientists Are Recording 24-Hour Soundtracks of Rainforests
The bioacoustic data gives Nature Conservancy researchers clues about the health of an ecosystem
Why Are Urban Planners Collecting City Soundscapes?
This is a journey into sound
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