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 ...

Dwight Garner's New York Times article, "Meditations on Noise," reports on three books covering the impact of sound and noise on our lives. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also ...

On Twitter last week (Nov. 20), O'Brien jokingly revealed that Disturbed's "cover of 'The Sound of Silence' is the first clip to crack 100 million views on my YouTube channel. I always knew that heavy ...

Silence might not be deafening but it’s something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones star in a drama for your ears that brings big ideas but does more telling than showing. By Aisha Harris When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

A movie trailer advertised on Facebook a new movie coming out in November about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and theologian who was killed by Hitler toward the end of WWII. His ...

Only Paul Simon could command the sound of silence like this. In the opening act of the first of five sold-out shows of his comeback tour at NYC’s Beacon Theatre, the music legend played the entirety ...

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 ...