Imagine your office so quiet you can hear every conversation within 40 or 50 feet of your desk. Suppose you can hear the every footstep of the fellow who lives above you because your apartment is quiet, very quiet.
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The element of surprise has always been important in battle, and humans have long invented ways to detect their enemies’ arrival. In the pre-satellite and radar era, tracking invaders’ movements was primarily done by listening (more…)

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the Gods
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (more…)

What can rally a sales team to achieve its best monthly performance? Urge congregants to put down their hymnals and strengthen their connection to one another? Involve audiences in a concert? (more…)

Most published concert reviews dedicate at least one sentence addressing the sound, or the acoustics of the venue. Reviewers often talk about the “good”-or even the “perfect”-acoustics of a hall without much explanation. (more…)

Seeing a show at American Players Theater in Spring Green, Wisconsin, is an experience: a dirt parking lot, a pre-show picnic, a trudge up the hill to the top of a natural amphitheater, bug spray, sunset, lightning bugs, maybe even rain ponchos. (more…)

Here at “Sound Thoughts” we are not ones to plug products you can purchase. But every once in a while we find something that is intriguing enough in its form and use that we want to share it with you. One item that has come to our attention recently is the “Object of Sound” series by NOCC. (more…)

As the legend goes, the Beatles quit playing live in 1966 because they could not hear themselves at their own concerts. The sounds from their screaming, record-attendance crowds were (more…)