Briefs
Short notes on the week in sound — the news, read for you.
Hundreds of floating porcelain bowls are ringing outdoors in Athens
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s “clinamen,” a pool of drifting bowls that plays itself, is outdoors for the first time at Onassis Mandra, with admission at €5.
Yuko Mohri’s free sound installation is at the Barbican until January
The Japanese artist’s free installation of umbrellas, apples and xylophones, set moving by humidity, magnetism and gravity, runs in London until January 24.
UConn finds an ear protein raised in the blood of tinnitus patients
Prestin, the motor protein of the inner ear’s amplifier cells, ran higher in tinnitus patients across 171 participants, though not reliably enough to diagnose…
Dance-music crowds wear earplugs more than other concertgoers do
In a USC survey of about 2,000 music fans, 70% of electronic dance music regulars used hearing protection against 59% of everyone else, and…
Hearing impairment tracked with dementia in a rural South African cohort
Among 567 older adults in Mpumalanga, 70% of those with dementia had impaired hearing against 36% of those with normal cognition, and the risk…
Soaak ties its sound app to your smartwatch and publishes no trial
The Tulsa company’s Find My Frequency reads sleep and heart data from five wearable brands to compose a personal track, on the strength of…
A Maine trial pits recorder lessons against music listening for aging brains
University of Maine researchers will randomize 48 older adults, half with mild cognitive impairment, to 12 weeks of learning the soprano recorder or guided…
Ohio State will test six weeks of sound bowls on 40 caregivers
A registered pilot study will measure anxiety and caregiver stress before and after weekly hour-long sessions, with no comparison group to show what the…
Tarek Atoui fills Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with sound from October 13
The Beirut-born composer, who builds instruments from glass, water and ceramics, takes on the free annual Hyundai Commission until April 11, with live improvised…
Rice wins $3.9M to test whether composing music protects aging brains
A five-year National Institute on Aging trial will put 210 adults over 65 with mild cognitive impairment through a six-week composition course, tracked with…
Two editions of one sound-healing market report disagree by double
Research and Markets now pegs sound healing apps at $279.9M in 2026 growing to $558.4M by 2032; its own earlier edition said $122.3M to…
Brain recordings decode imagined melodies, roughly one note in four
In 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the cortex, a Seoul National University team predicted the contour of silently imagined children’s songs at 26%…