This story is adapted from Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction, by David George Haskell. I first held a violin in my late forties.

There's loving music and enjoying music, and then there's being able to taste sound and see colors in sound. That is how Paul Mescal's Lionel experiences music. It's more than just music to him, and ...

To experiment with “playing” the strands of a web like the vibrating strings of a musical instrument, scientists at MIT used the web of a tropical tent-web spider (Cyrtophora citricola). A rattlesnake ...

You probably won't notice much of a difference.

For today’s creator content, great audio isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s essential. From YouTube videos to podcasts and Spotify, and all content in between, royalty-free music is vital to telling your ...

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

Lossless audio is becoming more common, but many people are still unsure what the term means. In simple words, lossless audio keeps all the details from the original recording. Nothing is removed to ...