Date: January 19, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Numerous governments have tried to re-arrange Cairo’s urban planning by getting rid of many...

Even from the very start of film-making, pioneers realized that sound was a completely essential part of the experience of watching a...

Date: January 13, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Cairo is one of the most crowded cities worldwide with an estimated population of 20 million,...

There is a basic truth, isn't there, that if you have to say that something is cool and trendy, then it isn't that anymore. Cool has to...

There are few cities in the world that have managed to create such an incredibly well functioning and harmonic city environment. All...

When a new product sees the light of day, it isn't enough that innovation is centred solely on the product itself. Innovation has to be...

"Hot AIR" is a most appropriate description of the AIR audio system from STEENSSEN. The word "hot" carries many meanings with it and most...

Date: January 5, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif It rarely rains in Cairo. In the last days of November, it rained for less than 30 minutes for...

The quotation marks in the title are because I have to admit that I stole the line from an article by Jonathan Margolis in the Guardian....

This is not Hallstadt am See in Austria. It is Hallstadt See, the Chinese rip off of the Austrian village. A true copy in southern China...

It’s fascinating to think about the sounds created by the weather. There are the obvious stormy conditions when the wind can howl and the...

You walk down the street. It's a cloudless day. The air is crisp. The sky is so blue that it is bordering on indigo. Then you get that...

You know Nordic Noir. It is that kind of dark Scandinavian crime thriller or whodunnit film that successfully swept across many...

FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria joined STEENSSEN in carrying out research into 3D sound. The masters...

Liberty Square in Taipei is quintessentially oriental. Also quintessentially euphemistic. The monumental Democracy Stairway on the right...