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Solitude

We're launching a virtual audio salon June 2! Details here:
https://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/listening-club

Listening Club Promo

Episode 1 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. 

Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episode features the work of Jesse Oak Taylor.

Ways of Knowing: Reading

Episode 2 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. 

Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episode features the work of Charles LaPorte.

Ways of Knowing: Close Reading

Episode 3 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episode features the work of Habiba Ibrahim.

Ways of Knowing: Close Reading Redux

Episode 4 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. 

Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episode features the work of Louisa Mackenzie.

Ways of Knowing: Environmental Humanities

Episode 7 of Ways of Knowing, an audio series about the humanities. 

Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episode features the work of Chad Allen.

Ways of Knowing: Material Culture

A new podcast about the history of astronomy

Cosmic Visions: Intro

Episode 1: Storytelling was one of the earliest ways humans tried to make sense of the heavens. The first object of major study was the moon, and that's because of an uncanny ability it has to keep time.

Cosmic Visions: Moon Stories

Some four thousand years ago, Babylonians began collecting celestial data for what is arguably the longest-running project in the history of science.

Cosmic Visions: Babylonian Astrology

In the 6th Century BCE, Ancient Greeks began thinking about the cosmos in a fundamentally new way. Their novel approach led them to believe the things they saw in the night sky were not ethereal, but solid bodies—balls of fire or rock that may even have inhabitants of their own.

Cosmic Visions: The Beautiful Order

In the 9th century CE, Mayan astronomers were able to calculate the period of Venus down to the minute. They were only able to achieve this unrivaled accuracy because they had developed one of the most important mathematical concepts in human history, the zero.

Cosmic Visions: The Mayan Zero

Near the end of the 11th century CE, there was a crisis in China’s Song Dynasty. The imperial calendars were filled with errors. To fix them, the imperial court would have to reform one of the most essential institutions in the empire: The Bureau of Astronomy.

Cosmic Visions: Deep Patterns

"Somnium" is considered one of the first pieces of science fiction. The short story, written in 1608, recounts a trip up to the moon. There are magical beings, aliens, drugs, and a perspective of the stars that would fundamentally change how people understood the solar system.

Cosmic Visions: Kepler's Fiction

An observational error in the 19th century leads to a belief that there is an advanced alien civilization on Mars...which leads to a boom in astronomy investment, research, and actual discoveries, including the first sighting of Pluto.

Cosmic Visions: Aliens

With the telescopes of the 20th century, astronomers began to see a universe that just so happened to resemble the cosmos as described by a 13th century Italian poet…Dante Alighieri.

Cosmic Visions: Dante's Universe

Some of the most iconic images we have of the universe closely resemble 19th-century landscape paintings of the American West. A big part of the reason has to do with how scientists interpreted visual data from telescopes like Hubble.

Cosmic Visions: Picturing the Universe

The story of how gravitational waves were finally discovered and how we are making sense of them.

Cosmic Visions: Sonic Gravity

There's a lot to hear in outer space if you change the way you listen.

Cosmic Visions: Sounds of Space

The first in a 9-part series dedicated to deep, intentional listening. Episodes of "The Listening Experience" will be released about every four months.

Listening Experience 01: Transposition

Bloop. Bloop bloop.

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1 – Mud Pots

A masterpiece from IBM and HAL.

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2 – Daisy Bell

Being surrounded by invisible streams of data.

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24 – WiFi

Speaking with our dappled, long-necked animal friends.

39 – The Secret Sounds Giraffes Make When the Sun Goes Down

The first long episode of The World According to Sound. Whoa.

WATS Special: The Sounds of Music

The confederate war cry resembled "a foxhunt yip mixed up with sort of a banshee squall."

60 – Rebel Yell

Making plum wine in your kitchen is unexpectedly melodious.

61 – Funnel Bubble

Not all of America takes kindly to Trump's ban of immigrants.

62 – American Unrest: Immigration Ban Protest 1/28/17

33 percent of America's electricity comes from coal. You're probably using energy generated from that black rock right now. It's extracted from the ground by guys like Mackie Branham.

63 – Coal Miner

Rebuilding white noise one wavelength at a time

119 – Digital Waterfall

New ways of thinking about the world, brought to you by the humanities and The World According to Sound. 

We’re working with universities to translate academic research into sound. Each season has a radically different format and topic. You’ll never hear the same kind of thing twice.

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