High definition sound. High quality sound. Musician John Harrison has reworked the cones (hmm) in speakers and amplifiers, replacing the paper with hemp, resulting in a sound that is said to be more “polished and smooth”.
Why hemp? It’s durable. It’s renewable. And, Harrison says, it sounds amazing. “Hemp kicks ass,” he says. “There’s [...]

Using wavelet transformation processes, rather than more traditional Fourier transform methods, acoustics engineer Mark Fischer has found a new way of rendering eye pleasing representations of whale song.

A little similar to Katie Paterson recording the sound of glaciers melting, and pressed onto records of frozen ice no less, Berlin composer and sound artist Andreas Bick has recorded the sounds made by a frozen lake.
Frozen lakes are known to give off most noise during major fluctuations in temperature: the ice expands or [...]

While some of us probably can’t abide the racket of the cities we live and work in, the BCC is intent on preserving their sound by creating a user generated repository of city sounds from around the world.

One of Eric Archer’s recent projects has been to capture the sound of light by converting discarded 8mm cameras into what he calls optical microphones.
Although human eyes are marvelous sensors, they don’t tell us the whole story. The effect called persistence of vision limits our ability to percieve rapidly changing light sources. Thus if a [...]

Since its release in 1977 Star Wars has done far more than spawn a six-movie series, as this diagram, originally published by Wired, depicts.
Fascinating, as Star Trek’s Mr Spock, would say.
Via Kottke.

Δ Is it time to re-introduce sound to the web?
So long as any audio files you incorporate in your website are not auto-players, and there is a way to switch the sound off, sure, why not.
It was probably one of the first things you did when you first started playing with HTML, but background music, [...]