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 ...

In auditory illusion tests, people perceive silence as a form of sound, just as Simon and Garfunkel suggested. By Bethany Brookshire The hush at the end of the musical performance. The pause in 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 ...

At a concert hall near Woodstock, N.Y., in August 1952, the pianist David Tudor played John Cage’s three-movement composition 4'33″. Doing so did not require enormous jumps with the right hand. Most ...

A viral social media post about Art Garfunkel's lifelong friendship with Sandy Greenberg was a generally accurate retelling of their history. They were college roommates, Garfunkel referred to himself ...