Between 2011 and 2013, ambient electronic musician Yoko K. Sen spent time in a local hospital receiving treatment. She didn’t like what she heard. The incessant stream of jarring noises—slamming doors ...

Are computerized hospital alarms trying to tell us too much? The beeping of monitors has become the ever-present audio wallpaper of hospital units. Medical devices monitoring patients send off alerts ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) Being a patient at a hospital brings stress, on top of already being unwell. People are always bustling about, nurses and doctors are administering care at all hours of the day ...

After 25 rounds of chemotherapy and twice having radiation beads injected into his tumors, Michael Farris’ liver was still too cancer-filled for surgery. Then, just a month ago, the Ladera Ranch ...

Do you find the sounds of everyday technology annoying? These sounds are almost impossible to avoid or ignore. Our lives are threaded with technology from the hum of our fridges and vacuum cleaners to ...