Sounds of the Wilderness in the Deep Still of Night
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Not much light escapes from pieces like âNightâs Black Bird,â a 12-minute essay in darkness and inertia played at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday.
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COLDWATER RIDGE, Wash. - The rumblings, the steady earthquakes, the throat-clearing steam blasts all seem so eerily familiar...
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This is the time of year when, in the lengthening shadows of afternoon, the air grows still and mysterious around here. An aura of secrecy and duplicity replaces that friendly banter among serious fisherpeople. Down the long strand of beach, shadowy figures keep to themselves, never showing whatever success they may be enjoying.
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If an Internet stock story falls in the woods, it does make a sound.
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By Merri Niland-bare  This evening, as the "day goeth away, and the shadows of the evening are stretched out," look low in the east for the mysteriously crimson full Moon, struggling to be noticed in the early twilight.
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By Anne Le Tran  THROUGH the long, soggy winter, when I sat at my desk staring out the window at the sky, I fantasized about one thing: indolent days by a body of clear blue water.   Finally, the rain stopped and the earth dried out.
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It's the time of the year for the music world's Top 10 lists. Iraqis who wake and fall asleep to explosions and gunfire have something else to offer: The Top 10 distinctive sounds heard in Baghdad's daily life.
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It is unsettling evidence of oneâs own age and station in life to find that electronic music â once virgin territory for the young explorer â now includes within its ranks a small army of grand old men.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. Mar. 11--BLYTHE, Calif. -- The setting sun cast long shadows over sawtooth hills just across the Colorado River as a dry desert breeze whispered through the palm trees at a motel which served as an oasis.
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One of the last stands of dragonâs blood trees may soon succumb to the harsh environment.
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My wife is a professional percussionist. After three years of hearing her play marimba, djembe and conga in our living room -- and hearing me fumble around on our piano -- our neighbors wanted us to keep quiet.
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Driving toward this tiny town feels like nearing the edge of the earth, a place of jagged red-rock peaks surrounding dry valleys covered in pinyon trees.
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The middle of winter generally finds me wondering more than wandering. Oh, I still get out, if only for a Sunday afternoon drive just to make sure it's all still there. If you haven't tried it, take a drive past some of the haunts where you hunkered down in last fall.
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Like snails, like glaciers, Eiko and Koma move slowly, so slowly, and yet even in stillness their bodies seem at all points suffused with meaning and, more particularly, feeling.
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Scientists have tested whether cellular audio is good enough to play and record animal sounds in the wild.
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A blaring ambulance siren and a mellow-toned cello: They hardly make perfect harmony.
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Photographer Matthew Pillsbury uses extremely long exposures to create eerie, ambient-light images that juxtapose technology's permanence with human transience. By Sharon Mizota.