According to Sting, silence is perfection. A bit of an odd statement out of context from a professional rock musician, but if you think about it, he's right. In an interview for his 2006 classical ...

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 ...

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 ...

The haunting folk anthem’s unlikely second life turned it into one of the defining American rock songs of the 1960s ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A brief, incomplete, very quiet guide to the history of music’s negative spaces. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim One of the most arresting objects on ...

Music in film isn’t just an auditory layer: it’s an emotional compass. In neo-noir thrillers, late-night character dramas and indie The post Scoring the Night: How Music Shapes the Mood of Neo-Noir ...

If Disturbed's "The Sound of Silence" cover raised goosebumps and left an impact on you before, a fan's newly edited video for the track amidst the current global Covid-19 pandemic should definitely ...

When I returned from home in the middle of November I brought with me a copy of the record. I showed it to a couple of people. “Simon and Garfunkel?” they said. “Are you kidding?” “It’s number one in ...

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 ...

One song has stuck with Julio Cuellar Gonzales for practically his entire life. Among his first memories of church in the 1970s in Villa Serrano, a town in the Bolivian region of Chuquisaca, Cuellar ...