Noise and Creativity Throughout History

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 4, 2014

David Hendy, media historian at the University of Sussex, host of the thirty-part BBC Radio series, Noise: A Human History, and the author of Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening, talks about the social history of noise and kicks off the call-in on the question of sound and creativity.  What sounds sparks your creativity or do you need absolute quiet?

 

Electronic Musician Matthew Herbert Re-Tells "Noise: A Human History" in Sound

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