Hii celebrates our human experience by exploring the use of sound in film+tv, music, art, the internet, and culture at large.

The print magazine + interactive audio-first site offer inclusive stories aimed at making concepts of audio accessible and connecting our global community.

It is edited and founded by One Thousand Birds, a leading design studio for audio. Hii is published and headquartered in NYC, with audio production studios in LA, Lisbon and Bogotá.

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Madeleine Fisher

PROFILES - Sonic Identity

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Conor Kenahan

PROFILES - Sonic Identity

11.7.2023

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Taking A Moment To Listen Helped The Josh Craig Make The Right Decision

COMMUNITY - Wish You Were Here

11.2.2023

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Musical Pedagogy: Musical Knowledge Production Across The Centuries

MUSIC

10.19.2023

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Songs That Melt, Flow, and Freeze Into Shapes: Karen Juhl on SILVER

SCIENCE+TECH - Synesthesia

9.26.2023

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This Clearance Bin Find Hooked Paul Maxwell On Music Making

PROFILES - Sound Catalyst

9.19.2023

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Laura Brunisholz's New York in Grey

SCIENCE+TECH - Synesthesia

9.12.2023

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Pouch Envy Took Tracking Down This Jungle Record Into His Own Hands

MUSIC - Favorite White Label

9.5.2023

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Magic and Pasta: DJ Tennis on Cooking & DJing

PROFILES

6.22.2023

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Mel Hines Isn't Afraid To Try New Things

COMMUNITY - Water Cooler

6.15.2023

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Exploration & Pursuit: Parallel Creative Processes in Music and Science

SCIENCE+TECH

6.8.2023

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What Does Death Sound Like? How to Listen at the End.

SCIENCE+TECH

5.25.2023

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Scott Lazer Believes The Best Ideas Are Right In Front Of You

COMMUNITY - Water Cooler

5.18.2023

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Exploring Animal Vocalizations & Communication: Moos & Oinks Have Meaning & Birds Are Karaoke Champs

SCIENCE+TECH

5.17.2023

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We're Hearing Flowing Melancholy In This Photo by Eponine Huang

HII FREQUENCY - Call-N-Response

5.10.2023

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Sex, Candy, and Sage Green

SCIENCE+TECH - Synesthesia

5.5.2023

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A Decade Later, Jacob Gambino Can't Stop Listening to Kowton's 'F U All The Time'

MUSIC - Favorite White Label

4.25.2023

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CALL FOR PITCHES: Issue 3 "PUNK IN THE POST-APOCALYPSE"

HII FREQUENCY

3.14.2023

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Hi-Tech Therapy: AI's Arrival In Sound Wellness

SCIENCE+TECH

3.2.2023

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Sounds of the Peruvian Andes: A Musical Cosmology (ft. Tito la Rosa)

SOUNDNESS

1.10.2023

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Jesiah Atkinson

PROFILES - Sonic Identity

11.23.2022

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Michael Lovett (NZCA LINES)

COMMUNITY - Wish You Were Here

11.11.2022

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Beneficios de Hablar en Voz Alta

SOUNDNESS - Translations

11.9.2022

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Parenting & Surveillance

CULTURE

11.4.2022

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Sarah Weck

PROFILES - Sonic Identity

11.1.2022

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MAY I TOUCH YOU?

HII FREQUENCY

10.28.2022

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Experiencing the Unseen: Tangible Impacts of Infrasound and Ultrasound

SOUNDNESS

10.24.2022

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AI Music Optimism in the Face of Dystopia

MUSIC

10.14.2022

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Call-N-Response: 8-Ball Community

HII FREQUENCY - Call-N-Response

10.11.2022

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29 Speedway and Laser Days @ Pageant

COMMUNITY - Wish You Were Here

10.7.2022

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Food Sounds

HII FREQUENCY - We Love

10.5.2022

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Breathing, Laughing, Snoring: Your Personality Sounds

SOUNDNESS

9.26.2022

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Sleep Trackers: The Unsound Recording Devices Disrupting Our Sound Sleep

SCIENCE+TECH

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Respirar, Reir, Roncar: Soundtrack Personal

SOUNDNESS - Translations

9.20.2022

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Crystal Guardian 'Savory Silence' Interview

PROFILES - Hii Interviews

9.19.2022

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Noise as the Enemy: Anti-Noise Efforts in the Early 20th Century

CULTURE

9.16.2022

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Tone Deafness & Melody

SCIENCE+TECH - Phenomena

9.13.2022

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O Som Dos Bailes: Brazil’s ‘Cook Out Music’

MUSIC

9.9.2022

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Then Who Was Phone? Phones In Horror

FILM + TV

9.7.2022

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Jaimie Branch: A Life in Sonic Communication

COMMUNITY

9.2.2022

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Audio As Evidence: The January 6 Hearings and Watergate

CULTURE

8.31.2022

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Amy Claire (Caring Whispers ASMR)

PROFILES - Hii Interviews

8.24.2022

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Nyshka Chandran

PROFILES - Sonic Identity

8.19.2022

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The Language of Music

MUSIC

8.16.2022

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The Sound Of Silicone Filling Your Ears

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How filling up your ear with silicone sounds like, featuring Crystal Guardian.

Wish You Were Here is a series of sonic postcards - a glimpse into the sounds of different scenes and happenings.

A couple of weeks ago, in anticipation of August’s Earshot installment, Spurge visited Crystal Guardian’s Elliot Cash at Nowaday’s in Ridgewood, Queens during a pop-up CG did before the club’s heralded Mister Sunday event.

There, Spurge participated in and recorded a fitting for Crystal Guardian’s custom earplugs. Considering the new sensations that occur during the fitting, Elliot explained what he was doing to give some insight on the process. (Shown below with another person getting fitted).

(Filling up the silicone)

Filling up the silicone

Here are Spurge’s ear fittings

Final product!

Revisit our last WYWH about Salsa dancing.

Recording by Spurge Carter
August 15, 2021. at Nowadays in Ridgewood, Queens

Go-Go (DMV)

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