This hour we’re coming to you from inside the Third Coast Institute of Sound — a fictional museum we’ve dreamed up where all of the exhibits and artifacts are dedicated to things that make sound and noise.

The Cat Piano (on loan from The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments)
By Victoria Ferran with Sound Engineer Chris O’Shaughnessy for Soundproof (ABC RN, 2016)
The history of the cat piano goes back centuries and raises unanswered (and perhaps unanswerable) questions about the relationship between music and noise, human and animal.

Vox Ex Machina
By Delaney Hall and Roman Mars for 99% Invisible
In 1939, an astonishing new machine debuted at the New York World’s Fair. An operator sat at the organ-like device’s curved wooden console with a giant speaker towering behind her. She faced an expectant audience, placed her hands on a keyboard in front of her, and then played something the world had never really heard before — a synthesized voice.

Mr Pumpernickle's Musical Gas (on loan from The Museum of... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy