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 ...

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 ...

Disturbed's “The Sound of Silence” earns the band their first No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative Digital Song Sales chart, as it also hits the top on several other lists. CHICAGO, IL - OCTOBER 10: David ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Cyril remix of Disturbed's “The Sound Of Silence”—itself a ...

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 ...

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 ...