A new design system attempts to solve this intractable problem through music. [Image: Man Made Music] “Right now, alarms are only designed to do two things: to scream for attention, which stresses ...

Announcements blare from overhead speakers. Electronic devices beep. Heating and cooling systems rumble. Employees and visitors speak loudly. This sound snapshot, researchers say, comes not from a ...

Our medical systems are facing a reckoning thanks to COVID-19 — and musician Yoko Sen says it's time to rethink the way our hospitals sound. Sen is raising the alarm on the harms of hospital noise and ...