In December 2026, in celebration of its 600th anniversary, University of KU Leuven in Belgium will inaugurate a new Vesalius Museum with a permanent exhibition structured around the human life cycle and connecting medical history with current social topics.
They have asked us, Sonic Womb, to consult on the first room, an immersive auditory experience of being in utero!
We are delighted that our paper studying the in-utero acoustic environment with a computer model was published in Nature Communications:
Evaluation of fetal exposure to environmental noise using a computer-generated model, Nature Communications (2025)
We are delighted to have contributed a chapter on fetal hearing and the auditory environment inside the womb in the upcoming Aural Diversity edited by John Drever and Andrew Hugill at Routledge. It will be available from September.
We love being in a book that challenges the idea of a normative listening experience and suggests how an awareness of aural diversity can create new creative practices.
We hope you’ll let us know what you think!
We are delighted that our our article in the current issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology is freely accessible until November 14th:
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1Zo8Rgm3hHnA
Make sure you watch the video at the bottom of the page!
We are closely watching this fascinating research:
As announced in January, for our collaboration with UCL GIFT-Surg, we are looking for a brilliant research associate to work on modelling the Sonic Womb.
Here is the job description: http://www.gift-surg.ac.uk/new-research-collaboration-develop-next-generation-neonatal-incubators/
We are delighted to announce that we are collaborating with GIFT-Surg at UCL on our research to increase our understanding of the role of sound in-utero in order to create the next generation of neonatal incubators:
New Research Collaboration between GIFT-Surg and Sonic Womb Productions
This is incredibly exciting for Sonic Womb as the GIFT-Surg project, which aims to push a major development in fetal surgery through better in utero imaging and surgical tools, spans an incredible array of disciplines and technologies which Sonic Womb will be able to draw on, from modelling (the main initial focus of our collaboration), to robotics, via 3D printing (of organ mimicking tissues), smart glasses and more.
We will also be contributing an updated Sonic Womb immersive experience to GIFT-Surg’s public engagement strategy… coming to you before the end of 2017 in London!
Our very own Julian Henriques was a guest on BBC Radio London Listed Londoner. He talks about the sounds of the Notting Hill Carnival and shares his favourite London haunts:
BBC Radio London Listed Londoner with Prof. Julian Henriques (from 12′)
Philippe Mercure, the science reporter of Canada’s La Presse wrote this great article about us yesterday. Thank you Philippe!
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