Culture
Places, people, instruments and the history of how we have used sound to feel better.

Bill Fontana made Grace Cathedral listen to San Francisco
For nearly 13 weeks this summer, sensors on the carillon and microphones inside silent organ pipes turned the building into an instrument played by…

A humpback’s song is shaped by the dive that carries it
Suction-cup tags on 16 singing males off Maui mapped whole songs onto whole dives for the first time, and some singers kept going for…

Two weeks left to hear Salisbury Cathedral’s Singing Gallery
“Joyful Noise” closes October 25; Emeka Ogboh’s choir sings from the medieval gallery above the west doors, and Deaf artist Christine Sun Kim makes…