by Simone Vitale | Nov 26, 2025 | Philosophy of Sound
There’s a famous illustration by Camille Flammarion showing a traveller kneeling at the edge of the world, lifting the sky like a curtain to glimpse the vast cosmos beyond. It’s often seen as a metaphor for the human impulse to go beyond what’s known, to question...
by Simone Vitale | Sep 29, 2025 | Philosophy of Sound, Science of Sound
If you send a loud enough tone into a liquid, tiny gas bubbles can implode so violently that they flash with light. This is called sonoluminescence. In its cleanest laboratory form, a single micron-scale bubble sits in a standing acoustic wave and emits a...
by Simone Vitale | Aug 25, 2025 | Philosophy of Sound
Mostly, we think of sound healing as something we create, an intentional experience shaped by voice and instruments. A moment set apart from the noise of the world, a carefully curated bath of vibration and stillness. But what about the sounds of daily life, where we...
by Simone Vitale | Jun 3, 2025 | Philosophy of Sound, Science of Sound
Sound, as we commonly understand it, is just a vibration that travels through air, water, or solid materials. It’s what we hear when air molecules move back and forth, creating pressure waves. But in recent years, scientists have discovered that sound is more...
by Simone Vitale | Apr 14, 2025 | Philosophy of Sound
The Music of the Spheres is an ancient philosophical concept that envisions the cosmos as a vast, geometrical system of harmonic proportions, where celestial bodies move according to mathematical principles and generate an inaudible series of tones that together...
by Simone Vitale | Apr 13, 2021 | Philosophy of Sound
The ups and downs of tuning our musical instruments with equal temperament The question of tuning The question of tuning and temperament is a fascinating one in that it is partially scientific (because it involves objective facts about the nature of sound) and...
