The composer, multi-instrumentalist and MacArthur "genius" fellow, deftly straddles the classical and jazz realms while ...

Paul Simon still has a special place in his heart for the classic track 'The Sound of Silence', but he feels that one solo ...

Silence has been described as simply the absence of sound — like the end of a song just before the next one starts or the lull in a conversation. For a long time, it’s been considered the placeholder ...

Do we have a bat signal for Paul Simon? In a new paper, a team of philosophers and psychologists at Johns Hopkins University claims to have finally settled an ancient debate: whether you can actually ...

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 Strovolos Municipal Cultural Centre will host the exhibition Sound of Silence by artist Christos Nicolaou, from October 25.Beyond just displaying the artist’s creations, the exhibition will be ...

Synesthete Lidell Simpson composes sounds he senses in his "inner hearing." Lidell Simpson likes to say that though he's deaf, he's never known a day of silence in his life. His "inner" synesthetic ...

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 ...

You can turn off the shutter noise your iPhone camera makes by flipping the Ring/Silent switch to Silent or enabling the Live ...