Oddly enough, there is a whole week to celebrate silence! National Silent Record Week is the first week of January each year, ...

Winter is the northeast’s quiet season, when songbirds go south, many animals hibernate, and people spend more time indoors. On the increasingly rare occasions when a blanket of snow covers the ...

When I returned from home in the middle of November I brought with me a copy of the record. I showed it to a couple of people. “Simon and Garfunkel?” they said. “Are you kidding?” “It’s number one in ...

An intriguing aspect of the early memories is that remembrances seem to emerge into consciousness in silence. Recalling an early recollection can be like watching an old silent movie. While this may ...

Ultimate Classic Rock reports Simon wrote “The Sound of Silence” in 1964. The track, originally titled “The Sounds of Silence,” was part of the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. The album was not a ...

Susan Philipsz “Study for Strings” (2012) (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) The Museum of Modern Art’s first foray into a group exhibition of sound art, Soundings: A Contemporary Score ...

What is silence, exactly? In quiet moments, does the brain register silence the same way it hears, say, music? Or does it demarcate silence as the gaps between noises? Psychologists and philosophers ...

The post Disturbed’s “The Sound of Silence” Video Passes One Billion Views on YouTube appeared first on Consequence. The music video for Disturbed’s haunting cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic ...

If you’re one of the many people noticing the lilt of birdsong more profoundly these days (or perhaps even for the first time at all), you’re not alone. Everywhere from the Upper West Side to Wuhan, ...

“When was the last time you turned your phone off for 24 hours?” asked Tiffany Teng during her LOWKeynotes Presentation at the Graduate School of Business. “We pick up our phones, on average, 52 times ...