Virtual reality has made the idea of immersively placing us into strange new landscapes — whether real or imagined — not only plausible, but commonplace. But what about sound? Up until now, there’s ...

A new feature on many at-home devices, surround sound audio has become increasingly popular. Spatial sound, which gives listeners a “3D” sound experience, is considered to be similar to a movie ...

How much attention do you pay to the sounds around you? If you listen, they can tell quite a story. That’s what some high school students learned while helping a local artist prepare what's being ...

Heat is not supposed to behave like this. In everyday life, warmth seeps and diffuses, spreading from hot to cold in a slow, smearing process that never looks anything like a crisp sound wave. Yet ...

One of our five powerful sound and music composition workstations is installed in this room and connected to a mastering-quality surround system and contrasting URIE large format studio monitors.

Traditionally, it’s been remarkably difficult to properly find dead spots in a speaker’s output, but scientists at the British National Physical Laboratory have started using lasers to accurately ...

A scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory won a MacArthur “genius grant” on Wednesday for his efforts to restore historic audio recordings. Carl Haber, an experimental physicist at the ...

A group of stakeholders in the music industry have commended the Virtual Sound Laboratory for its immense contribution towards the building of an energetic music industry in the country. According to ...

From left to right: SoundBio co-founders Michal Galdzicki, Zach Mueller, and Regina Wu, with SoundBio founding member Wakanene Kamau. (SoundBio Photo) Despite a vibrant maker culture, and one of the ...