While many are aware the pacemaker is a WNY innovation, not everyone knows the kazoo has a local origin. The instrument just about anyone can learn to play has been manufactured in Eden since 1916. We ...

Your hearing isn't the same as mine, nor anyone else’s for that matter. Nissan recognizes this, and it says it has come up with a way to tailor the sound systems in its vehicles to the listener’s ...

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

About 200 pro-LGBTQ+ protestors drowned out an anti-LGBTQ+ Christian Nationalist’s religious rally in Seattle, Washington, last weekend by playing lesbian pop star Chappell Roan’s song “Pink Pony Club ...

For years, people assumed sharks were the silent type, but that’s not true, and they aren’t alone when it comes to creatures like sharks that make noises. Some of the world’s strangest creatures make ...

From trippy mushroom synths to the stressed-out “pops” of thirsty plants, recording the music of nature has long resulted in soundscapes both fascinating and moving. A new recording of a melting ...

Community members march Friday, July 4, 2025, in the Annual Nazareth Kazoo Parade in Nazareth. Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure speaks Friday, July 4, 2025, during a program following the ...

A new study conducted by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and published in March examined how well the average person could locate three common types of warning sounds from ...

Chris Kehrer, science program manager at Port Royal Sound Foundation in South Carolina, recently answered a question I have wondered about since childhood. Why does the Atlantic croaker, a marine fish ...

Music will fill the air as the Cultural Alliance of York County sponsors its fourth annual Make Music Day at venues around the county. “Make Music Day is more like a celebration or a holiday than a ...

Even the smartest people can't help but get annoyed by these unnecessary sounds. Struggling with misophonia — an experience of extremely strong anxiety, disgust, and irritation in response to certain ...