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For most of human existence, listening was closely tied to moments that carried meaning, emotion or survival. Nature supplied the backdrop – wind, water, animals – and music surfaced in hunting ...

With “traditional” blues as their foundation, some artists and educators working to introduce the music to the next generation see plenty of room to improvise.

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

Amid the search for Nancy Guthrie, Dominic Evans, a schoolteacher who online sleuths have accused of being a suspect in the ...

For the past 25 years, South Sound Reading Foundation has been bringing the joy and adventure of books to our area children, at no cost to the families.

Tiny, repeating detachments between sole and floor — thousands of times a second — create the distinctive squeak heard on the ...

Harvard engineers think they've found the reason basketball shoes squeak, and it's due to pockets of friction between the ...

An equine makes the low-pitched part of its whinny by vibrating its vocal cords—similar to how humans speak and sing—and the high-pitched part by whistling ...

A new study finds that horse whinnies are made of both a high and a low frequency, generated by different parts of the vocal ...

A New England artist makes music from the imperceptible noises of nature—using tools that usually detect hidden nuclear ...