Open Your Ears
Scott SimonelliSound, perception, media, and the hidden forces shaping human response.
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They Were Only Wrong About the Room
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My Family Was Louder Than Any Restaurant. I Still Heard Every Word.
Sunday dinner in North Jersey. My mother is the youngest of thirteen, so a table built for eight was always going to be a negotiation. Tonight it held twelve, with two more leaning in from the doorway.
Aunt Rosie was three sentences into a...
When Sound Breaks, We Reach for a Screen
Wimbledon ended on Sunday, and if you watched, you heard it. A crisp recorded voice, calling “out” and “fault” from nowhere in particular. The voice belongs to a human being. The human being is not there.
For 148 years, a line call at Wimb...
The Sky Used to Be Quiet
The sky used to be something we looked at.
Clouds. Birds. Planes. Weather. Light.
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Scott Simonelli is the founder and CEO of Veritonic, a composer, and author of Open Your Ears: Blind Curve Ahead. He writes about sound, perception, creativity, media, and the hidden forces shaping human response.
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