IN a Chicago laboratory a test tube full of water containing a squirming goldfish was placed for half a minute in a device which produces silent sound waves, pitched far beyond the topmost notes of a ...

At this weekend's AV Festival, artists Iain & Jane will be joined by Jason Pierce as they revive their Silent Sound performance. In an essay for the Quietus, they take us through the event. The ...

We’ve all heard the saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words." But how often do we see it exemplified in animation? That is the premise of a remarkable silent sound exhibit at the Nasher Museum.

Replacing a surgeon's scalpel with a beam of high-energy sound could reduce the side effects that hamper some cancer treatments, says the team behind a new clinical trial. The study of prostate cancer ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

I: Methodology -- The history of silent film sound -- Crisis historiography -- II: The late-nineteenth-century soundscape -- The musical scene -- Lecture logic -- III: Early film sound -- From peep ...

“Singin’ in the Rain” got it wrong. The beloved 1952 musical-comedy spoofing the transition from silent films to sound in Hollywood didn’t reflect what really happened after the release of 1927’s “The ...