Musica universalis The eye did not always have primacy over the ear. Humanity once valued spiritual hearing over spiritual seeing.

"Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen have produced an informative and romantic gazetteer of the sounds that resonate in our souls...The Sound Atlas makes a too rarely considered case for a quieter kind of ecology, within which essential sounds can have broadcasting bandwidth."

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Space Jams and Other Sonic Wonders Plus some acoustic odds and ends for your enjoyment

Thanks to Chris Berdik, author of Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World―and How We Can Take It Back, for this lovely review of The Sound Atlas:

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Orion Magazine - Inside the Deepest Artificial Hole on Earth EVEN IN A HORIZONTAL, flat landscape, cosmology runs vertical. From up—heaven, to down—hell. In between, the interface—that thin crust upon which life is

A new essay over at Orion magazine by Michaela Vieser & I on the sounds and histories of the (formerly) deepest drilled hole on Earth—Part of our #SoundAtlas book & project. 🌏🕳️👂