Soundwave Scientist Gifts

Musician having a brain scan.

Future garbage truck driver.

Jimi Hendrix.

"This next song is just a song. Try not to read anything into it."

'Horace spends his spare time being a rock critic.'

"See! Thousands of new listeners."

"I'd know my tinnitus anywhere and this isn't it."

"And here's one I made up called 'Mama's Last Nerve.'"

Music Freak.

Rock & Roll

Sounds of the market hitting all time highs. . .

Cow Sonar

"I love hearing that lonesome wail of the train whistle as the magnitude of the frequency of the wave changes due to the doppler effect."

The Edward Witten String-Theory Quarter

Justice for a heckler.

'Didn't I tell you to take up some hobby other than opera?'

Specialized regions in a couple of human chromosomes.

'Yeah, well I'm sick of being so danged happy all the time.'

"Our researchers have discovered that 'E' is the most common, and only, letter in the dolphin alphabet."

'Don't worry, the first 30 years working as a sound engineer are the hardest.'

Compact Disc: "01011100110001011011010001111...."

Didgeridoos

Rational explanations

"I think I'm going to fall! Will one of you please make a note of the sound in case anyone every asks?"

The reception here is awful!

"Did you hear something?"

'I'm running into lots of trouble with my ambition to be a shock jock.'

"It was just humming right along - then began whistling."

'I got rid of those funny little spots in front of my eyes. Now what's bugging me is a buzzing noise in my ears, like somebody sawing logs.'

'Well, Tom, everyone suffers from delusions from time to time.'

Little Jimmy Harmon: first to amplify the sparerib

Bruce Springsteen

C. Doppler takes a walk.

"Great! You're hired."

A Meeting of Audio Buffs.