KC Collins
@sounddr.bsky.social
New book! https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053730/sonic-ux/ Sonic UX. Professor. Search and Rescue. Ottawa, Canada #sounddesign #sound #UX #audio 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
As part of my work on sound heritage, I'm running a short survey on sounds (not music) that are important personally/culturally to people from different parts of the world. Please do help if you can 🙏 (versions in other languages will be added soon) tinyurl.com/5579y76e
What would a home sound like if you co-ordinated all the sound of all appliances? sounddr.ca/house-choir....
Weekend reading: finishing this book. It's well worth a read by sound folks!
If the number of times you rewrite a grant application before submission was the only criteria for success, I would win this year. #SSHRC
open to contributions \|| until september 11 • culture.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...
European Commission publishes call for evidence on AI strategy for the Cultural and Creative Sectors
Help shape the future AI strategy for the Cultural and Creative Sectors with your views until 11 September 2026.
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Happy to announce the release of The Sound of You. It's been years in the making. Craft your personal sonic identity today. Free. sounddr.ca/art/sound-of...
The Sound of You | Sonic identity infrastructure
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Prospective grad students: if you use AI to write your intro email to me, you're getting exactly that amount of effort back from me on your application. You're applying for a graduate position: show you're capable of thinking and writing!
Because I got really bored today. Generative sound art piece. You can print your generation with a pen plotter if you like. sounddr.ca/art/seeded-p...
Seeded Plucks
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A machine can detect, transcribe, separate, and generate sound. What would support its claim to have listened? Our new project, LISTENING.md, puts that question inside an open stack, a working terminology, and a benchmark in development. sonicfield.org/listening-md...
A dryer that will not speak to an empty room. An EARS game prototype: sounddr.ca/ears-example...
Hold-2 · a dryer that will not speak to an empty room
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I've been a busy beaver this week. I built a card deck that generates prompts for sound design. Then I drew rounds and made whatever came up. 7 artifacts so far, all slightly wrong! PLEASE use the game and post your outputs! I'll reply to this with some examples. sounddr.ca/ears-deck.html
SoundDr — EARS: a deck for challenging your sound design
EARS, a deck for challenging your sound design. Ear, act, routine, shade. Sonic UX Research Lab, Dr. KC Collins.
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High temperatures can damage instruments. Here’s how musicians can protect their guitars, violins and more.
Heat can damage instruments. Here’s how to protect yours
With high temperatures this week, we asked a violinist and an instrument craftsman for tips to maintain instruments during hot weather.
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We're hosting a Japan Audio Community Meetup after #CEDEC2026, and you're invited! @damiankastbauer.bsky.social will be joining us, as well as our team on the ground in Japan, for a casual post-CEDEC convo! See you there? 👀 Be sure to RSVP: hubs.ly/Q04pHcfS0 #GameAudio #Wwise
Revamped my website this week. If you have #sounddesign #UX research questions, check out the resources! sounddr.ca
SoundDr — Sonic UX Research Consultancy
Sonic UX consultancy headed by Dr. KC Collins, rooted in sensory science and specializing in sound research, user testing, and sonic strategy.
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KC Collins’ Sonic UX, from MIT Press (@mitpress.bsky.social), brings sound into user experience research: audible interfaces, product perception, emotion, cognition, and sensory method. 🐚 sonicfield.org/sonic-ux-kc-...
We are so excited to announce that our documentary film Sounds of Dreamers is officially live on YouTube 🎬 Sounds of Dreamers is Audiokinetic’s documentary film paying homage to the community of audio creators. Watch it here: hubs.ly/Q04nrZFx0
the talk I did for AirCon26 is now up on youtube to watch :) Cow Tools Of Sound Design www.youtube.com/watch?v=4alv...
Cow Tools of Sound Design | AirCon26
YouTube video by Airwiggles
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Institute for Postnatural Studies has opened registration for Sound Ecologies Vol. II, a four-session online seminar with Yuri Tuma on extractivist listening, animal song, queer ecologies, climate fiction, and listening technologies. 🐚 sonicfield.org/sound-ecolog...
🚨 Aqeel Aadam's new texture/sustainer VST, Coastline, is out today and features some of my field recordings! Support this smart fella and check out his very cool audio tools. aqeelaadamsound.com/b/coastline 🌊
Coastline
Try for one week freeAtmosphere. Texture. Instantly.Coastline is a dual-engine audio sustainer with intermodulation, advanced filtering, support for custom samples, and more – all in the service of ad...
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As if this place is real! How beautiful, if barren, the Faroe Islands are!
Public sound toys in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands! I had to have a little time to play...
Enjoying a long weekend in the Faroe Islands after the Design Research Society conference in Edinburgh. Danish design always makes my heart soar! Design is so underestimated. It lifts my spirits so much to be surrounded by such beautiful design.
If anyone can help I would really appreciate it 🙏 The survey is open to everyone. Thanks!
Mariana J López@marianajlopez.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are running a survey to capture the impact of EAD (Enhanced Audio Description) and I'd really appreciate your help. The survey is open to everyone. If you can help please do and if you can share/repost this message that would be fantastic. Thanks! forms.gle/YebpzES14mwe...
I'm looking forward to this book! I remember playing with Eliza when I was a kid, on the old 5150. It piqued my interest in AI even back then. Like trying to "break" Sierra games by typing "naughty" words, playing with AI was such fun then.
@markcmarino.bsky.social · 2mo agoThanks to Nick Montfort for his support on this project, including hosting us at MIT and his own writing about ELIZA! Inventing ELIZA stands in great company beside 10 PRINT, Output, and Racing the Beam. @docmofo.bsky.social #computerhistory #platformstudies
Still banging my head on the wall of convincing my department that sound is not an afterthought and elective in a digital media program, but should be part of core courses. I can't believe we're STILL HERE after 25 years of this battle.
Discover the science behind sound's influence on user perception and emotion—and learn how to design, evaluate, and enhance sound-driven experiences across diverse products and interfaces:https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053730/sonic-ux/
