The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) annually hosts “Word. Sound. Power., ” a multi-disciplinary amalgamation of hip-hop, spoken word, dancing and theatrics. This year’s series theme, “Word: The New ...

Sound intensity is referred as the sound power per unit area. It illustrates the flow of acoustic energy produced by a sound source. Not like simple microphones and sound level meters, sound intensity ...

Last year I wrote about how the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has failed consumer audio in its Amplifier Rule to combat the unrealistic power claims made by many hi-fi amplifier manufacturers ...

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 22 million people—including nearly all power plant workers—are exposed to potentially damaging noise at work each year in the U.S.

Ever since the dawn of time, sound has been a unifying force allowing us to tap deep into the emotions that lie buried within. Through chanting, preaching, celebrating, crying, dancing and living, we ...

We speak to various audiophiles – from musicians to wildlife recordists to sound engineers, who are at the top of their game – about the expansive nature of sound and its ability to recall memories, ...

Researchers have developed a battery-free sensor that reacts to sound waves, such as particular spoken words, producing enough vibrational energy to power an electronic device. The novel sensor would ...

When specifying cooling equipment, engineers are faced with myriad decisions affecting performance and layout. One critical consideration is the noise emitted. As population density rises in major ...