The Current

Coffee Break: The Sound of Silence

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Forbes

Disturbed’s ‘Sound Of Silence’ Is A Hit All Over Again

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Disturbed’s “Sound of Silence” has been experiencing something of a ...
PBS

Salt Lake Symphony - Sound and Silence

The Salt Lake Symphony’s final concert will invite the audience through guided meditations The Salt Lake Symphony is presenting its final concert, an exploration of Sound and Silence, where audience ...
The New York Times

Silence Is a ‘Sound’ You Hear, Study Suggests

In auditory illusion tests, people perceive silence as a form of sound, just as Simon and Garfunkel suggested. By Bethany Brookshire The hush at the end of the musical performance. The pause in a ...
Inverse

Psychologists Just Figured Out How The Brain “Hears” the Sound of Silence

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 ...