"And the whole world loves it when you make that sound ..." --OutKast, "The Whole World" This week, Weekend Edition is taking on the globe for our Google Maps sound-mapping project. We're not trying ...

Public officials and scientists today toured a research vessel that will begin mapping the bottom of Long Island Sound this summer as part of an effort to gather information and data on the seafloor ...

When Sony debuted its premium home theater gear for 2021, the company's pricey HT-A9 speaker set had a key feature that its soundbars didn't. It's called 360 Spatial Sound Mapping and it creates ...

LONDON, April 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From an eerily quiet Times Square in New York to cheers for healthcare workers, a website is collecting sounds to document how coronavirus has ...

Annea Lockwood thinks of rivers as “live phenomena” that are constantly changing and shifting. She’s been drawn to the energy that rivers create, and the sound that energy makes, since she first ...

Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical ...

When you think of true surround sound stereo systems, you imagine cumbersome multi-speaker affairs that take all day to set up. Sony may have just upended that notion with its HT-AX7 portable theater ...

The sonic intentions of architecture are often lost over the centuries. In 2014, a team of researchers investigated the acoustics of Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki, Greece, to retrieve some of ...

Watch the video to get the scoop on two exclusive immersive audio technologies from Sony; 360 Reality Audio and Spatial Sound Mapping. Sony’s 360 Reality Audio is a new immersive format that has been ...

Overview: AI-powered spatial audio places sound within real spaces instead of flat channels.DSP level integration allows ...

Owing to our modified work schedules, most of us at Weekend Edition weren't lucky enough (or perhaps unlucky enough, depending on your point of view) to be pressed into service for NPR's coverage of ...