Recent TWiS Highlights

My This Week in Sound newsletter has been back after a little hiatus for book-writing. I wanted to point out a few recent stories of particular interest:

June 8: (1) a great Washington Post piece about mitigating restaurant noise and (2) a John Cage kids book

June 12: (1) the individual names of elephants and (2) the truth behind the story about creaky floors in shogun-era Japan serving as surveillance devices

June 19: (1) a SoftBank AI project that dampens heightened emotions on customer complaint phone calls and (2) YouTube videos being demonetized because home appliance noises trigger copyright detection bots

June 26: (1) whether loud sound in museums damages paint and (2) failing sonic weapons in South Korea

June 27: paid subscribers got a bonus issue in the form of a three-part ambient/adjacent mixtape: two live recordings plus music from Shanghai for contemporary dance