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"Most people report vivid visual dreams during REM sleep, with scenery that seems to structure the narrative of the dream. However, the extent to which we experience auditory content in dreams is relatively unstudied, or underreported."

"In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn't the first ambient album by any means, it was the first album explicitly released as an 'ambient music album'. The album was essentially a continuation of Eno's experimentation with the tape machine as a compositional tool, as well as his exploration of generative music, music created by systems. In this article I'll discuss how Music for Airports was created, I'll break down and recreate the tracks 2/1 and 1/2, and hopefully give you some ideas about how to adopt this approach yourself."

Salomé Voegelin is a Swiss artist and writer based in London. She is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence: towards a Philosophy of Sound Art, Continuum, NY, 2010. The book engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. It seeks to immerse the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the everyday acoustic environment, to establish an aesthetics and philosophy of sound and to promote the notion of a sonic sensibility. Other recent writings include an article on Morton Feldman in the Wire 324, February 2011 issue, and an essay on durational radio for Kunstradio ORF Austria. Her blog soundwords.tumblr.com writes the experience of listening to the everyday.

"To produce The Met's first 3-D audio experience-an immersive tour integral to the current exhibition Visitors to Versailles (1682-1789)-my team and I entirely rethought the idea of a typical audio tour. Our goal? To bring alive the actual experiences of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century visitors to Versailles. "

" How do you create a "you-are-there" audio experience, when the "there" in question is a palace in an entirely different century?"

"Dedicated to Internet videos related to the field of acoustic ecology."

"How do you go about listening to some of the quietest music ever recorded? Very carefully, writes Jeff Siegel."

"LISTEN, my heart takes place in a cinema-a room with no windows, a room dedicated to a magic screen. Tonight, these screens are dark, and we bring to you the sounds of the world outside. This is a cinema for the ear. "

"As I started exploring, I began noticing the sounds around me. I began to think that maybe instead of focusing my attention only on the "Kodak moments" - and don't get me wrong, I take a lot of photos - perhaps using the SoundCloud mobile app to isolate and feature my "sonic experiences" would be another really cool way to map and document my Toronto travels. And thus, the Sounds of My City project was born!"

"When Canadian astronaut Colonel Chris Hadfield was as far from home as a human can get, he used SoundCloud to share the sounds of the International Space Station and connect with everyone back on Earth."

""we tend to be indifferent to acoustics" in contemporary residences, and think only of "competing with traffic outside". Normally, he continues, "architecture is about being quiet", whereas there's a rich history of sound and architecture - especially in pre-literate societies. He talks of the clarity of sound in the Greek amphitheatre, of the intentional use of sound spaces in Medieval and Gothic cathedrals, which were "designed by acoustics as much as visual principles - they were considered 'sacred resonators'"."

"You can look across a vast expanse of ice, all white and blue and cold, and see nothing. The lead is choked with pack ice or sealed over with newly formed ice, and there is no movement or sound. With few birds, no whales and no bears, one might mistake the Arctic for a desert. But if you go down to the ice edge, pick a hole in the new ice deep enough to reach water and drop in a hydrophone (an underwater microphone), the cacophony is astonishing. "

"Luke Jerram's Sky Orchestra project "explores how one can perceive an artistic experience" whilst sleeping."

""The Melody Road will allow a car passing above it to play a simple tune, which is made audible by ridges on the road's surface. The pitch of the note created is increased by increasing the frequency of the ridges, and the opposite is also true.""

"WALL OF TIME is very proud to have secured as our second interviewee one of the few eminent experts in the field, the trained architect, carpenter, musician and writer OLAF SCHÄFER."

"Reporting on the aims of the Positive Soundscapes research project last week, news sources picked up on the apparent psychological importance of a varied and unlikely range of urban sounds, and about how we might benefit from the smart integration and manipulation of them within the built experience. Admittedly they phrased it rather more succinctly. "

"Regular one-to-one interviews with artists, curators, writers, publishers and academics who engage broadly with sound and its use in contemporary and historical arts practice."

"While we all can appreciate getting some peace and quiet every now and then, you might be surprised to learn that there's only so much of it the brain can take."