Live concerts, fireworks and roaring stadium crowds can reach dangerously high volumes — loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss. But what was the loudest sound ever recorded on Earth? The answer ...

Composer Jeff Scott. Courtesy of Jeff Scott's Instagram. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Sheldon series was the best thing to come out of the renovation of Powell Hall, which left the ...

Pixel devices are getting a set of new ringtones, notification alerts, and alarm sounds via an update to the Sounds app. Update: Sounds 3.3 (825845788) is now widely rolling out to older Pixel devices ...

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In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Played a bassoon, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a fantastic opportunity to engage your mind, enjoy leisure time, and test ...

Brian Anderson’s ‘Loud and Clear’ captures the strenuous work, psychedelic vision and lasting influence of the band’s most audacious sound-system experiment. By Noah Eckstein When journalist Brian ...

Eryn Oft is a professional bassoonist and distinguished instructor at Jacksonville State University. She has played in many orchestras, including in support of internationally known acts such as ...

That now classic tagline (from Alien, one of the greatest science-fiction horror movies ever made) hinges on a big assumption that most of us broadly make: space is empty. And it is—mostly. But there ...

If the bassoon is the class clown of the orchestra—clever, quirky, and slightly unpredictable—then the contrabassoon is its brooding, baritone cousin lurking in the shadows. Twice as long and twice as ...

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What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without disturbing anyone around you? Or have a private conversation in public without other people hearing you? Newly ...

A round of applause, please: Scientists have finally figured out what’s behind the sound of clapping. The research pinpoints a mechanism called a Helmholtz resonator — the same acoustic concept that ...