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A Travel Guide to Sonic Wonders

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Takes your ears on holiday!

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This a travel guide to our Sound World – listing places where what you hear is an important part of the experience. Find places either via the soundmap, a search or click on the Tag Cloud. Or suggest possible places I should include.

Sonic Wonders is authored by Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford. The site has inspired the book Sonic Wonderland (UK) / The Sound Book (US).

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Tags

  • animal
  • architecture
  • audio needed
  • bell
  • bird
  • cathedral
  • cave
  • chimes
  • chirp
  • clock
  • concave
  • creaking
  • echo
  • flutter echo
  • focussing
  • groaning
  • indoors
  • lithophone
  • machine
  • man-made
  • music
  • musical instrument
  • nature
  • noise
  • organ
  • outdoors
  • periodic
  • railway
  • reflection
  • reverberance
  • sand
  • sculpture
  • sea
  • silence
  • singing
  • speech
  • sphere
  • stone
  • tunnel
  • voice
  • waves
  • whispering arch
  • whispering gallery
  • whispering wall
  • wind

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