Courtesy of the artist Cecil Touchon and the Sears/Peyton Gallery in New York.

Sound Reasoning

May 30, 2008

The sound in the spaces around us has a history. Princeton University professor and author of The Soundscape of Modernity Emily Thompson studies that history. Thompson says that what we hear in the world and the way we listen result from architectural methods, technological innovations and even the culture at large.


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