The Sounds Of Science
October 26th, 2007 by Russell DaviesI’m writing this with the sounds of Cartoon Network in the background, with my son giggling away and with a jackhammer banging long and hard in the street outside. Plus there’s the miscellaneous bleeping, whirring and cajunking of the average domestic environment. And The Sounds Of Science has made me hear it all anew, wondering why I like what I like and what I’d miss if it wasn’t there. It’s 30 minutes of thinking about the science of sound - why do we hate the sound of vomiting and like the sound of the sea? Is a sense of harmony innate? Why does the music of a barely contacted tribe sound like a 50s traffic jam? (Here’s an MP3 of programme one)
The programme page is well worth visiting too. There’s a bunch of interesting links at the bottom of the page. Quite well hidden, but this is a bit more like it Radio 4. Hurrah! (And here’s a related article)