Sound

Series produced by Bishop Sand

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Sound is always flooding into our ears. This series examines what sound is and how we (and other animals) make sense of it.

This series tackles the medium in which it's presented. This was fun to produce and led to some interesting questions along the way. The driving question behind the series is how do we make sense out of such a simple air vibrations?


12 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Speech Dance
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Hear about new ideas in the neuroscience of communication where scientists are now considering multiple brains interacting at the same time.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 2
Social Guide to Babbling
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Hear about how babies develop their babbling. It's not through imitation but something more... social. It's also very similar to a strategy songbir...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2014
  • Length: 15:25
  • Purchases: 1
SHAZAM!
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Avery Wang helped found the app, Shazam. This app is now part of our cultural consciousness as a flagship app for all smartphones because it is so ...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 10:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Cocktail Party Problem
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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You’re at a crowded cocktail party and you somehow hear someone talking to you. How does that happen? Your ears are taking in so much sound and som...

Bought by Radio Newark, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 13:34
  • Purchases: 3
Sound is...
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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What is sound? We'll define it physically and through our experience. Interesting descriptions abound as we learn why a piano sound is different th...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 14:39
  • Purchases: 2
The Animal Orchestra Is Quieting
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Animals communicate with each other like instruments in an orchestra. This natural soundscape is now quieting which can have an effect on humans as...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2013
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 3
A Musical Brain Tease
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Don Hodges studies music psychology. Here, he discusses one of his latests studies that gives us some insight into what our favorite song (and musi...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:25
  • Purchases: 1
Translate Sound to the Brain
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Sound gets funneled down your ear canal and... then what happens? You've heard about drums, tiny bones, and maybe a spiral shaped sensor, but not l...

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  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 15:49
  • Purchases: 1
Plasticity
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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What happens when visual information is sent to the hearing centers in the brain? Hear about this interesting experiment and more generally, why th...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
Speech IS cHaNGe
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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It is easy to pick out human speech from background noise. But how can we do this given that all the parts of speech sound like all the other noise...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 2
Experience Shapes Perception
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Your experiences shape who you are as a person. But how do they shape our perceptual abilities? Listen to how our brains process auditory informati...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 2
Cocktail Effect Remix
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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In this remix, you’ll hear updated information, restructured content, and a new mix to explain how we parse voices and music in a noisy scene. Mu...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 15:19
  • Purchases: 1