Sound

The pioneer of ambient music, now 79, rediscovered some of his earliest recordings for a new four-disc set.

Bringing a great crying scene to the big screen requires a combination of craft and empathy. This is how three…

Researchers found that dolphins confronted with noise increase the volume and duration of their calls to one another but struggle…

The Damien Chazelle epic is set in 1920s Hollywood and draws on figures from that time, including “the ‘It’ Girl,”…

Julie Taymor’s version of Mozart’s opera, a fairy tale of puppets and plexiglass, achieves its finest form in the Met’s…

A couple disagrees on the etymology of a fart.

These four sounds are missing from some of the seven words you can never say on television, and the pattern…

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