Because the tragus faces rearwards, it aids in collecting sounds from behind.

Each cassette has other tales as well - of a small boy who collects sounds, for instance, or a clown who juggles parts of his body.

Both albums originated from Mills "collecting sounds" from musicians, many of whose albums he has illustrated.

He built custom-made instruments and, wherever he went, collected sounds with tape recorders for use in constructing musical works later.

In 2000, she was invited to create a new work at University of California, Santa Barbara, using the latest in sound generating technology to collect sounds there.

They collected sounds of frogs, crickets, volcanoes, a human heartbeat, laughter, greetings in 55 languages, and 27 pieces of music on the Voyager Golden Record.

Cusack's Sounds From Dangerous Places is a project to collect sounds from sites which have sustained major environmental damage.

What sets them apart is that they collect sounds from the period of 1957-1962 exclusively and create sound collages that evoke everything hep from the era.

This he used to collect ambient sounds, animal noises at London Zoo and the voices of autistic children.

He had taken her on field trips collecting sounds - "breath relics," he called them - and they had fallen in love and married.