Briefs
Short notes on the week in sound — the news, read for you.
A vibrating material found its own single rhythm and became a time crystal
In a Nature study, 37 small robotic units buzzing at about 30 Hz merged their vibrations into larger, slower waves until the whole material…
Maia Urstad turns four decades of old radios into one Bergen show
Tidslommer, at Lydgalleriet from October 30 to December 12, reuses transmitters and obsolete radios from the sound artist’s archive as instruments and narrators.
Zadie Xa hangs a conch of brass bells in Toronto from October 24
The Power Plant’s free winter show pairs paintings with a suspended sculpture of hundreds of bells shaped like a seashell, open until March 21.
Noise-cancelling headphones under anesthesia cut nausea after surgery in a Chinese trial
Among 192 women having keyhole gynecologic surgery, 35% of those wearing headphones were sick within two days, against 52% without.
Light and sound locked together in a plain glass fibre
Max Planck physicists made light and sound waves trade energy faster than either fades, in one pass through a fibre at 4 K, with…
A Ménière’s drug shows hearing gains in a company’s new trial analysis
Sound Pharmaceuticals says a third of patients on its oral drug regained at least 10 dB of hearing, against about one in ten on…
Bernhard Leitner’s sound sculptures fill the Vienna Secession until November 22
A cube of wooden slats plays 48 channels of water sound, and a corridor of metal plates pulses with bass you feel more than…
Raven Chacon scores the desert as Mars at SFMOMA
The Pulitzer-winning Diné composer’s new installation pairs silent archival film with his own field recordings and drones, opening Saturday for a year-long run.
Older adults in four countries want hearing care from a clinic
Surveyed before over-the-counter hearing aids existed, more than 9,000 people over 60 picked doctors and audiologists over shops, ads and mail order.
RNID publishes a playbook for streaming theatre sound to hearing aids
The UK charity and hearing-aid maker GN wrote a six-chapter guide for theatres adopting Auracast, which broadcasts a show’s audio straight into hearing aids…
Musicians are slightly harder to fool with the ventriloquism illusion
In 70 Australian students, trained musicians let a flash of light drag their sense of where a sound came from 1.6 degrees less than…
Venice’s Biennale Musica runs a deep-listening room until October 24
Caterina Barbieri’s “A Child of Sound” brings 130 artists and 18 world premieres to venues from the Arsenale to a women’s prison on the…