Sound maps of rivers and songs for cicadas are two examples of a new kind of music inspired by 19th-century German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. Inventing his own resonator, the scientist broke ...

To composer Devin Arne, nature is music. The West Chester University professor and Havertown resident has been recording the sounds of that music for years. “I did a sound — sound installation (in the ...

A sound artist travels the world recording wildlife and turning natural sounds into music to connect people with nature and conservation.

When London-based hip hop artist Louis VI looked at social media over the past few years, he kept seeing the same image: orange skies from wildfire smoke. "It was one of those strange, eerily ...

Technology has allowed electronic music artists endless possibilities for mixing and creating sounds. Some of these artists draw inspiration from nature and biodiversity, incorporating birdsong, ...

The Museum for the United Nations’ UN Live has launched Sounds Right — a global music initiative that enables Nature to generate conservation funding from her own sounds. The initiative aims to spark ...

Birds chirping in the forest, waves crashing in the ocean, and the sound of thunderstorms are some of nature's beloved symphonies. These sounds are inseparable from the human experience not only as ...

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 ...