Open Your Ears
Scott SimonelliSound, perception, media, and the hidden forces shaping human response.
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The Garden Heard It Before the Scoreboard Did
Game 4 of the NBA Finals was supposed to be a coronation. Madison Square Garden was ready to shake. The Knicks were home, the series was there to be seized, and the building had that rare New York electricity where anticipation becomes its...
The Sound of a Body Missing
This week, Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, said something that should make anyone who cares about sound sit up a little straighter.
AI is now “omnipresent” in music production.
Not someday. Not in some weird experimental c...
The Stadium Is a Nervous System
It tried. It fragmented everything: movies into clips, music into background, news into feeds, conversations into comment threads where everyone became both prosecutor and branding consultant. But live sports still does something strange....
Before It Was a Song, It Was a Signal
Before we had alphabets, cities, clocks, maps, books, screens, podcasts, playlists, or whatever fresh hell your phone is currently doing to your attention span, we had sound.
Not music yet. Not language yet. Not even words.
Open Your Ears...
The Voice Is Becoming the Crime Scene
A group of journalists, podcasters, and audiobook narrators just sued Google, alleging the company used recordings of their voices without permission to train AI systems.
Not their words.
Open Your Ears is a reader-supported publication....
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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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