Twenty Thousand Hertz
The stories behind the world’s most iconic and fascinating sounds.
Latest Episode
Butterfly in the Synth: Reading Rainbow’s Magical Theme Song (12.01.2026)
Previous Episodes
- 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
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