Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

The stories behind the world’s most iconic and fascinating sounds.

244 - When Everything Stopped, He Started Listening

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Twenty Thousand Hertz

Episodios

When Everything Stopped, He Started Listening

The State of the 20K Multiverse™

Doctor Who & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Butterfly in the Synth: Reading Rainbow’s Magical Theme Song

Auld Lang What? The surprising origins of the New Year’s song

Guess That Sound 2025: Youtube Channel Champs

The Sound of Fallout: From Iconic Games to Prestige TV

Defying Gravity: The Audio Wizardry of Wicked's Live Vocals

The Secret Soundtracks of Movies & TV

Inside Imagineering: How Sound Powers Disney Magic

Live from New York, I’m Retired! SNL’s Sound Legend Signs Off

The Nursery Rhyme That Ruined a Rock Band

Listener Stories 2025 (Gold): Transit Tunes & Childhood Chimes

Yahoo! The Yodel Heard Around the World

Super Mario Bros: Koji Kondo’s 8-Bit Masterpiece

Listener Stories 2025 (Silver): Pinball Pings & Airport Acoustics

Mixing Madison Square Garden for Vulfpeck’s Biggest Show

The Music of Jeopardy! From a Lullaby to $100,000,000

Listener Stories 2025 (Bronze): Siren Calls & Medical Melodies

I interviewed 5 other Dallas Taylors and things got weird

Mix Notes: Dumb Farts, Alien Crickets & Junkyard Instruments

The Deaf Composer: How Beethoven wrote music he couldn’t hear

The Sonic Brand Makeover We Didn’t Know We Needed

Inside Apple: Sonic Accessibility

“In a World…” The epic evolution of movie trailers

“The Autumn, She’s Been Hit!” The wish that changed Halo forever

Solar Symphony: Listening to the Sun’s hidden “music”

Speaker Terror Upper: When Bass Tapes shook the streets

Radio Station Jingles: 80 Years of Earworms

Guess That Sound 2024: Sound Pro Smackdown

Dog Translation Guide: Decoding Barks, Howls, & Growls

Cat Translation Guide: Decoding Meows, Purrs, & Chirrups

The Voices of Bluey w/ Uncle Stripe

The Organic Sound of Bluey w/ Sound Designer Dan Brumm

"Blah, blah, blah" and the Ungooglable Phrase

Lofi Girl: The story behind 📚 beats to relax/study to

How Doctors Listen: A sonic journey through the body

The Sound of Apple: Marimbas, Radars & Reflections

The Sound of Apple: Tritones, Chords & Origins

Listener Stories 2024: Auditory Hallucinations & Family Whistles

The dark history of nursery rhymes

Sounds of the Deep: Mysteries and threats beneath the waves

Boom Bling: TikTok's sonic guerrilla marketing

Mixing Seth Meyers: Behind the sound of late night TV

Untranslatable Words: Guess That Meaning!

Inside Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Studios

Hidden Sounds of America: NYC Hum & Underground Organ

All About That Bass: How pop became obsessed with the 808

Industrial Musicals: The Golden Age of corporate showtunes

Into the Huluverse: The sonic evolution of Hulu