If you live in an urban landscape, you may be all too familiar with the sound of traffic rushing past, dogs barking or the voices of people gathering right outside your bedroom window. Even if you don ...

While there's more research supporting the use of some noise colors than others, there's growing interest in the entire spectrum. Whether it's called sound therapy, auditory stimulation or auditory ...

May the best noise win. In a world of cacophony, it may be too much to ask for silence. Even that, as Simon and Garfunkel warned us, has sounds. So what do you do? Counteract sound with sound. Set a ...

Why is white noise white? What would orange or purple noise sound like? According to novelist Janet Fitch, “You can’t describe a color without synesthesia” (Fitch). To a large degree, the same holds ...

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