Here's a list of podcast series and episodes that feature interesting topics and thinkers in the field of sound studies:
- On Being: Krista Tippett hosts a spacious conversation featuring contemplatives from all fields (poets, writers, physicists, musicians, artists, activists). Recommend episodes:
- Gordon Hempton: An acoustic ecologist who believes silence is "an endangered species."
- Alice Parker: A 90-year old song-leader who believes "singing is the most companionable of arts"
- Katy Payne: A student of whales and elephants, Katy and her husband Roger Payne discovered whale song!
- Twenty Thousand Hertz: An excellent podcast about all things sound-related. I highly encourage you explore this one. Some great episodes include:
- Vroom Vroom: An episode all about the sounds of cars (and sports cars).
- Hear Here: An episode about the history of acoustics + architecture.
- 99% Invisible: A podcast about all things design+architecture. The episodes below center on sound design:
- Sound and Cities: This episode touches on sonic branding, and the health impacts of noise in cities -- featuring Erica Walker, a professor at Boston University!
- Sound and Health: Hospitals
- The Laugh Track
- All Rings Considered
- Sounds Natural -- But it was made artificially...
- Reverb: the Evolution of Architectural Acoustics