The World According to Sound, created by Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, is an immersive live audio experience that asks audiences to listen differently. Surrounded by sound, listeners are taken through recordings, stories, research, and unexpected sonic landscapes that reveal the world through the ear instead of the eye.
For 80 minutes you’re going to sit in darkness, surrounded by loudspeakers, and go on a sonic voyage. You’ll hear the vibrations of the Golden Gate Bridge, footsteps of ants, recordings made a century ago, and silence turned into music. You’ll be transported to 1930s Berlin, inside a waterfall, under a sand dune, and into the middle of a choir singing in the reverberant nave of a 6th-century cathedral. You’ll hear ideas, essays, books, theories, contemporary research, all translated into soundscapes that challenge you to rethink the world through your ears instead of your eyes—and ultimately to reconnect with what makes academic inquiry so meaningful.
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