Without quiet, there could be no noise, and without noise, no music. A simple statement, sure, bordering on the “well, duh,” but by playing those three elements off one another, Sigur Ros bring this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Tyburski's debut feature deserves to be listened to at full volume. If you listen closely enough, even silence sounds like something. Most of us can’t hear it, but most of us aren’t house ...