Thirteen unresponsive ICU patients changed a tone using thought alone
In a Columbia study of 41 brain-injured patients who could not move or speak, a third shifted a beep’s pitch through bedside EEG, and…
Music did not amplify LSD’s effect on the brain in a Montreal study
In 17 volunteers scanned with and without ambient music, the researchers expected music to deepen the drug’s effect and found a weak trend the…
Daniel Neumann tunes eight speakers to the Fridman Gallery’s own resonances
In Dilation, part of the group show Body Actualized on the Bowery from November 11, sustained drones are set to beat and shimmer in…
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…
In Alzheimer’s, the songs that stay familiar come from earlier childhood
A Helsinki study of 101 older adults found pleasure in old songs held steady as dementia advanced, while the songs that felt familiar slid…
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…
Singing did no better than conversation in a small dementia trial
Fifteen Amsterdam nursing-home residents tried both a singing group and a talking group; each helped in a different way, and neither came out ahead.
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.
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