“We love radio, but it’s become so dependent on information and story,” says Chris Hoff, who, with Sam Harnett, produces The World According to Sound, a podcast comprising minutes-long episodes that tell tales with sounds in lieu of language. “There’s not a lot of space to just listen.” A few years ago, Hoff and Harnett took their show on the road. “People sat in the dark, disconnected from their phones, and listened to the sounds on big speakers,” Hoff says. “The whole idea was to listen intently to things you’d never think to try and listen to, like a bridge, or an ant, or an athlete’s grunt.”