Sounds
Questions
1. What are your favourite sounds?
2. What’s the most annoying sound to wake up to?
3. Can you walk around your house without making a sound?
4. Do you sound like your parents?
5. Do you always like the sound effects when you watch a movie?
6. Do you like the sound of your own voice?
7. Whose voice do you love the sound of?
8. What sounds from nature do you like most?
Videos
What happens when a horror movie composer and a guitar maker join forces? They create the world’s most disturbing musical instrument. Affectionately known as “The Apprehension Engine,” this one-of-a-kind
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instrument was commissioned by movie composer Mark Korven. Korven wanted to create spooky noises in a more acoustic and original way—but the right instrument didn’t exist. So his friend, guitar maker Tony Duggan-Smith, went deep into his workshop and assembled what has to be the spookiest instrument on Earth.
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Category: Art
Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices.
Category: Psychology | Science