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  • Now, an archaeologist suggests that the Stonehenge monument in southern England may have been an attempt to mimic a sound-based illusion.

    Stonehenge Inspired by Sound Illusion, Archaeologist Suggests The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

  • It makes the phonemes -- sound-based units of speech -- visible, according to the association's Web site.

    Rockville parents opt for Cued Speech Mimi Liu 2010

  • "Juan Muñoz" is a retrospective of Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz (1953-2001), including sculptures, drawings, writings and sound-based installations.

    Time Off in Europe 2009

  • When sound-based tools were perfected that could identify lifetime physiological trends with a scanner, even prenatally, the DNA scientists were taken by complete surprise, just as the archaeologists had been when DNA testing knocked their theories of the human geneaology into a cocked hat.

    Now, everybody knows the day and the hour: a little healthcare fantasy 2009

  • Scott ups the ante by moving from “you” and “I”, driving a sound-based abstraction into an autobiographical elision – teasing out details in abbreviated gasps of breath, stilted sentences and short-line blerts of “cusp / munch / crunch / rump.”

    Archive 2008-08-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Scott ups the ante by moving from “you” and “I”, driving a sound-based abstraction into an autobiographical elision – teasing out details in abbreviated gasps of breath, stilted sentences and short-line blerts of “cusp / munch / crunch / rump.”

    derek beaulieu on blert Lemon Hound 2008

  • NW: I worked with a general sound-based constraint in this section: to represent either how each object sounded when it was used specifically, the percussive sounds against the body, and/or the sounds made by a person either wearing the object or having it used on them.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Lemon Hound 2007

  • An alliteration addict from Brazil has asked whether the notion of alliteration has to be purely sound-based.

    On alliterating, or not DC 2007

  • An alliteration addict from Brazil has asked whether the notion of alliteration has to be purely sound-based.

    Archive 2007-03-01 DC 2007

  • NW: I worked with a general sound-based constraint in this section: to represent either how each object sounded when it was used specifically, the percussive sounds against the body, and/or the sounds made by a person either wearing the object or having it used on them.

    Natalie Walschots, Thumbscrews Lemon Hound 2007

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