"I am here today to defend auto-tune. I may be late to the party, but if you watched Lil Wayne's recent schizophrenic performance on MTV's VMAs you know that auto-tune isn't going anywhere. "

"Language can be a site of loss, a wholeness with which one, due to migration, has never really known. In the above passage, artist, Jesse Chun, reflects on how her grandmother spoke words in a language she did not understand, but yearned to hear and feel those sounds after her passing. There is a sonic residue that sticks to diasporic experiences. There are sounds that can stir up a blend of affect and ideation that is comforting when whiteness is unsettling."

"Fast Slow Radio presents 22 sonic impressions from locations around the globe. Each 60 minute section is an "audio time-lapse" combining thousands of chronological audio samples collected during a 24hr period. Fast Slow Radio combines the glacial pacing of Norwegian "Sakte-TV" with the constant change of Luc Ferrari's "Presque rien No. 1"."

"Severance provides a stellar example of how a quiet, subtle, appropriate, yet detailed soundtrack can have every bit as much impact as a Marvel movie."

"Sonic Terrains in Latinx Art at the Vincent Price Art Museum presents a history of Latinx sound practices steeped in resistance"

"Bill Fontana Recorded the Vibrations of Church Bells Inside Fire-Damaged Notre Dame. Now, He's Taking His Sound Installation on Tour"

"Ugnayan consists of twenty separate 51-minute tracks, each to be played back on a different radio station. The idea was then to have everyone in Manila tune in to a different radio station so that all of the tracks would play back simultaneously, each from a different source. This is a stereo mix of the original tracks, recorded by Maceda and a small group in 1973, using mostly traditional Philippine instruments. Masses of layered percussion and wind sounds build up in short passages and are supplanted by new ones. There's an abundance of bamboo sound, either struck or blown, and a lot of harmonic information happening. This piece (and Maceda's work in general) is important because it attempts to bring together elements of traditional folk music and "avant-garde" composition, and they do it in the public arena. These are not just dusty academic endeavors, they were and are lively examples of other ways that music and sound can be integrated into everyday life. -Jeph Jerman, squidsear"

"On a muggy August evening on Randalls Island, I stood in a field of Honda Odysseys and CR-Vs, tricked out with towering rows of tweeters and subwoofers. Speakers were affixed to the roofs or lined the trunks of the vehicles like light artillery, painted in canary yellows, blood reds and indigo blues."

"As our environments change, so too do the sounds they make - and this change in soundscape can affect us in a whole host of ways, from our wellbeing to the way we think about conservation. In this Podcast Extra we hear from one researcher, Simon Butler, who is combining citizen science data with technology to recreate soundscapes lost to the past. Butler hopes to better understand how soundscapes change in response to changes in the environment, and use this to look forward to the soundscapes of the future. "

"Bill Fontana's latest project, Silent Echoes Notre-Dame, is a contemporary sound installation in Notre-Dame Cathedral's bell towers. The soundscape records the sounds that Notre-Dame's bells emit in response to the environment around them. "

"BIG revealed the design for a treetop hotel room wrapped in 350 bird houses created for the Treehotel in Lapland, Sweden. Designed in collaboration with ornithologist Ulf Ohman, the 34 square-metre Biosphere room seeks to enhance the surrounding biosphere by providing a habitat for local birds while allowing guests to be immersed in the surrounding forest. The project is the latest addition to the hotel's series of individually designed rooms created by some of Scandinavia's most renowned architects, such as Snøhetta, Rintala Eggerstsson, and Tham & Videgard."

Gilberto Esparza investigates technology as a possibility to pose questions and solutions to the impacts of the human footprint on life on earth, based on a vindication of the intelligence inherent in life and rethinking the relationship of human societies with the natural environment. His practice employs recycling consumer technology and experiments with biotechnology.

"Nick Luscombe concludes his personal journey through music and architecture, with a look at past and present visions of the future, including tracks from Yuri Suzuki, Alexandre Desplat and Abdullah Ibrahim. We hear the music choice of architect Kengo Kuma and a brand new work from Scanner, inspired by Kuma's Yudo Pavilion."

"Three inverted metal trashcans, with microphones hidden inside. Strategically placed beneath a steady stream of rain drops, from a cracked porch roof. Who composed this? Ask the rain."