The World According to Sound

Ways of Knowing

Society EN ↓ 193 episodes

New ways of thinking about the world, brought to you by the humanities and The World According to Sound. We’re working with universities to translate academic research into sound. Each season has a radically different format and topic. You’ll never hear the same kind of thing twice. We’re independent and ad free. Patreon is the best way to support our work. https://www.patreon.com/theworldaccordingtosound

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The World According to Sound

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Latest episode

Jun 17, 2025

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Episodes

HWGH Part 9: Where We Go From Here 10.05.2021

Part 9 in a three-hour radio documentary about why workers in America are so disempowered and precarious.

HWGH Part 8: A Bad Gig 10.05.2021

Part 8 in a three-hour radio documentary about why workers in America are so disempowered and precarious.

HWGH Part 7: A Nation In Debt 06.05.2021

Part 7 of a three-hour documentary about why workers in America are so disempowered and precarious.

HWGH Part 6: Coping Mechanisms 03.05.2021

Part 6 in a three-hour documentary about why workers in America are so isolated and disempowered.

HWGH Part 5: The Road To Shareholder Capitalism 27.04.2021

Part 5 in a three-hour documentary about the disempowerment of American workers.

HWGH Part 4: Fissuring the Workplace 22.04.2021

Part 4 in a three-hour radio documentary about how executives and shareholders have undermined workers in America.

HWGH Part 3: The Attack on Worker Power 19.04.2021

How We Got Here Part 3

HWGH Part 2: Obscure Laws And The Erosion of Benefits 13.04.2021

Part 2 of a three-hour documentary about the way shareholders and managers have undermined and isolated workers over the last 50 years.

HWGH Part 1: The ‘Great Risk Shift’ From Companies To Workers 13.04.2021

Part 1 of a three-hour radio documentary about how shareholders and managers have undermined and isolated workers over the last 50 years.

126 – Winter Listening Series 20.11.2020

Join us every Thursday night starting 12/3/20 for over an hour of immersive, intentional listening. Go to theworldaccordingtosound.org for tickets!

125 – Sound Break: Weekend 14.05.2020

Proto musique concrète.

124 – Sound Break: Amphibians 07.05.2020

Listening to animals that no longer exist.

123 – Sound Break: Ultrasonics 05.05.2020

Reaching the heights of hearing, yoked to the glorious streams of insect song.

122 – Sound Break: Antiphonal Duets 30.04.2020

An ornithic call and response.

121 – Sound Break: Avian Slow Jams 28.04.2020

If you would please just not sing so fast!

120 – Sound Break: Sound Consultant 23.04.2020

Designing products not with your eyes, but with your ears.

119 – Digital Waterfall 21.04.2020

Rebuilding white noise one wavelength at a time

118 – Sound Break: Sonorous Deserts 16.04.2020

The sound of emptiness.

117 – Sound Break: Egypt 15.04.2020

Historical reconstruction through sound.

116 – Sound Break: Sand 14.04.2020

116 – Sound Break: Sand by The World According to Sound

115 – Sound Break: Long-necked Ungulates 13.04.2020

Utterly stupefying and unexpected.

114 – Sound Break: Hagia Sophia 09.04.2020

Recreating extinct environments.

113 – Sound Break: Mudpots 08.04.2020

A director's cut of our very first episode.

112 – Sound Break: En Garde! 07.04.2020

Parry, parry, thrust!

111 – Sound Break: Kinetic Equine 06.04.2020

It's good to get exercise even when you're confined indoors.

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