"when we are speaking about sounds, "annoying" is a subjective criteria. But there must be, one figures, some consensus on the subject. For this week's Giz Asks we reached out to a number of sound-experts to find out what that might be."

"For the design of a new facility whose mission is to empower the blind, sound played an unusually prominent role."

My work fuses the raw material of music into visual, emotional and intellectual forms by drawing with cut paper, shaping and layering positive and negative space into rhythms. The paper is meticulously cut and composed, opened and closed, with a focus on creating lines that specify coherent patterns of light and shadows on a grid, forming a visual musical structure. In essence, the paper itself becomes the instrument that draws light into visual musical patterns.

"Reverberating through the Pulitzer's iconic building, Adkins's works carry the potential of sound, and remain alluring even in silence. "

"You know that split-second lag when translating between two languages (however you define them), when meaning starts to slide into a string of unintelligible symbols? That's the space that Christine Sun Kim's artworks occupy. Her drawings use systems of information - from musical scores to infographics to emojis - to question systemic dissonances between Hearing and Deaf cultures. The results straddle the line between semantic wordplay and semiotic breakdown, evidenced in the artist's current solo exhibition titled Trauma, LOL at François Ghebaly, Los Angeles."

"Living under the paving stones, consuming our refuse, and incubating our diseases, the city rat is a ubiquitous part of global, urban capitalism. The revulsion rats inspire actually speaks of our closeness to them-rattus norvegicus burrows through the supposed human / nature divide. And just as we continually negotiate our place in a dynamic city, so have rats developed elaborate social codes intertwined with urban architecture and geography. We are not usually privy to the vocal address of one rat to another, however, as they primarily speak above the (20khz) threshold of human hearing. For Urban Intonation, I recorded rats at multiple sites on the streets of NYC with an ultrasonic microphone. I then resampled and pitch-shifted the result into the range of the human voice and mixed it for playback over a human public address system, repositioning rat noise in public space as something that is recognizable, if not intelligible, as speech. "

"Hydrofeminist METitations is a listening series brought to you by Ensayos. This episode was created with students from the Nomad MFA program at the University of Hartford's Hartford Art School."

"The World According to Sound's listening series has breathed new life into stagnant stay-at-home days and given me a meditative tool for coping with ever creeping anxiety."

""Times3" is the latest work by a veteran composer, vocalist, multimedia artist and "wild virtuoso.""

"Electronic music has been around for about a century, and women (however ignored) have been a part of the movement from the beginning. Sisters With Transistors - a film with an excellent title - tells the story of electronic music's female pioneers, starting with the Lithuanian Clara Rockmore, who performed solo in the 1920s at the New York Philharmonic with a theremin, one of the very first electronic instruments. "

"New research proves that wild Savannah Sparrows can learn to sing different melodies at two ages, shedding light on critical learning periods for songbirds. Previously only seen in laboratory settings, this is the first experimental study to show the behavior in wild subjects. "

"Ambulation: to walk or move from place to place. Ambulation is a sound walk that uses field recording techniques and listening technologies to create a walking performance using environmental sound. Ambulation engages with the act of recording as an improvised performance in response to the soundscapes it is presented within.  "

"Hum: Drone Listening Walks is a 2-colour risograph printed pocket book mapping and poetically detailing resonant spots for audio. Readers are encouraged to walk to the sites on the map at their leisure and participate in a guided sound tour"

"Suzanne Ciani performs live quadraphonic modular synthesis from Envelop SF, a 32 speaker immersive audio venue in San Francisco. This event was originally live-streamed via Envelop Stream, in collaboration with The Audio Engineering Society in October 2020."

"Suzanne Ciani performs live quadraphonic modular synthesis at Envelop SF, a 32 speaker immersive audio venue in San Francisco. This event was originally live-streamed via Envelop Stream, in collaboration with The Audio Engineering Society in October 2020."

"For three centuries, farmers living in the remote mountains of northern Turkey have communicated great distances by whistling. It's a language called kuş dili that is still used to this day, though fewer people are learning it in the age of the cell phone. It's also known as bird language, for obvious reasons. Muazzez Köçek lives in Kuşköy, and she is the best whistler in her village. Muazzez shows us how she uses varied pitch frequencies and melodies to translate Turkish vocabulary into whistles with meaning. "

"Electromagnetic fields are everywhere and this workshop provides the basic tools for sensing the invisible universe that surrounds us by providing sonic, haptic and visual feedback on our bodies. "

"Tips and Tricks with Ian Wellman"