Music & sound

The first stories in this collection are on their way.

Coming up

• A Baghdad Flute That Played Itself in the 800s 9th century · House of Wisdom era, Baghdad
• A Shipyard Flaw Detector Saw the First Unborn Baby 1955-1958 · Babcock & Wilcox, Renfrew and Glasgow, Scotland
• A Turkish Village Whistles Its Words 2015 · Kuşköy, Giresun, Turkey
• A Zoo Visitor Felt Elephants Talking Below Hearing May 1984 · Washington Park Zoo, Portland, Oregon
• Auto-Tune Came From Hunting Oil With Sound 1976-1998 · Houston, Texas and California
• Beethoven Heard His Piano Through His Teeth 1796-1827 · Vienna, Austria
• Brain Scans Show the Aztec Death Whistle Works 11 Nov 2024 · University of Zurich (whistles from Mexico)
• Clap at This Pyramid and It Chirps Back 1990s-2004 · El Castillo, Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Mexico
• Debussy Heard Java in Paris and Changed Music 1889 · Exposition Universelle, Paris (musicians from Java)
• Doctors Prescribed the Didgeridoo for Snoring 2004-2006 · Zurich, Switzerland
• In the Quietest Village, Old People Heard Like Young 1960-1961 · Mabaan villages, south-eastern Sudan
• Lenin Played the Instrument You Never Touch May 1922 · the Kremlin, Moscow