Sound
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Magazine
Poem: Beyond Theity, Ity Idiom/Dear Faith
Jane Gregory’s poetry privileges sound — one of poetry’s most powerful aspects — over meaning, looping nonlinearly while stacking and…
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Arts
Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise
Over two nights at Carnegie Hall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in an awesome display of its might.…
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Science
A Room in Midtown Is Quietly Fighting the Battle Against City Noise
People like to tell me all the ways that New York is too loud. They send emails to my Ask…
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Arts
Nick Cave Goes Underground
For an artist best known for “Soundsuits” that produce a variety of percussive effects when worn, Nick Cave’s public project,…
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Magazine
The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word
The City Council of Mariupol, Ukraine, was trying to make a point about mass death. Their city had been hit…
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Arts
Lizzo’s Disco Dance Party, and 11 More New Songs
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs and videos.…
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Magazine
How to Record Thunderstorms
“You have to be patient because you can’t control thunderstorms,” says Frank Bry, 59, a sound effects recordist who creates…
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Arts
Daddy Yankee, Reggaeton’s First Global Star, Steps Aside
Plunge into the recesses of YouTube, and you’ll find a video of Daddy Yankee performing live in his late teens,…
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Arts
‘32 Sounds,’ a Film Performed Live, Probes the Power of Listening
Early in Sam Green’s relentlessly curious documentary “32 Sounds,” the filmmaker asks an employee of the British Library Sound Archive…
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Arts
Review: Gustavo Dudamel Could Be the New York Philharmonic’s Future
On Wednesday, when the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center hosted a news conference announcing that the $550 million renovation…
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