Art
A Flock of Rotary Phones Chirps and Purrs in a Brooklyn Basement
The phones are ringing off the hook in the basement of IDIO Gallery, and no one is answering them.
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Art
Peering into a Caravan Haunted by Marionettes
As the sounds of a storm fill the gallery, the illuminated caravan begins to clatter with life.
Art
Listening to Archived Sounds Amid the Stacks at the New York Public Library
Up on the second floor of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, you might hear the rising notes of opera faintly ringing from a card catalogue, or see people wearing headphones at the ends of the sheet music aisles.
Art
A Hidden Times Square Sound Installation Returns to Full Hum
Max Neuhaus's "Times Square" sound installation is meant to be stumbled upon by visitors to the chaotic crossroads in Manhattan.
Art
Hearing a Symphony in the Cacophony of a Lagos Market
Every city has its own sounds, its distinct murmur and roar of voices and traffic.
Art
A Theater's 18th-Century Thunder Run Rumbles Once More
The thunderstorm in the third act of Shakespeare's King Lear will rumble ominously in the Bristol Old Vic's production of the play this summer thanks to 18th-century sound effects.
Art
An Acoustic Museum of Byzantine Sound
The sonic intentions of architecture are often lost over the centuries. In 2014, a team of researchers investigated the acoustics of Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki, Greece, to retrieve some of that design through sound mapping.
Art
Walk the Eight Blocks from the Met to the Met Breuer, Accompanied by Soundscapes
John Luther Adams's "Soundwalk 9:09" is a composition that's only complete once you listen to it on the noisy New York City streets.
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Soundscapes Composed from the Colors of Famous Paintings
What might a Raphael sound like, based on the particular colors of its paint?
Books
A Sonic Alarm for Our Natural World Going Silent
Bernie Krause has listened to nature since 1968, and in his decades recording environmental noise has become attuned to its changes.
Books
Surround Sound: The Sonic Environments of Jacob Kirkegaard's ‘Earside Out’
This past spring, the Danish Museet for Samtids Kunst acknowledged the hard-won singularity of countryman Jacob Kirkegaard by granting him his first solo exhibition, Earside Out.
News
An Archive of 10,000 Cylinder Recordings Readied for the Spotify Era
From cakewalks to carols, historic sounds of all kinds are preserved at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Cylinder Audio Archive.