The Kaufman Center: Something New for Both Ear and Eye
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On schedule and on budget, the Kaufman Center opened on Tuesday with a gala reception and concert after an eight-month, $17 million renovation.
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Three new CDÂs attempt to go beyond modern conceptions of piano sound to show, in various ways, what kind of music Mozart might have heard on his own instruments.
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Scientists think they can improve your hearing with stem cells and electrodes. If you have an iPod, you should probably listen up. Randy Dotinga reports from the AAAS meeting in San Francisco.
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In a new study, scientists have found that the left and right ears process sound differently.
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Challenging decades of scientific belief that the decoding of sound originates from a preferred side of the brain, UCLA and University of Arizona scientists have demonstrated that right-left differences for the auditory processing of sound start at the ear
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These funky selective-focus lenses require coordination to use but can produce effective, attention-getting images.
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Eighteen months after the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater announced an innovative commissioning project, few notes have been written. But the effort is gathering steam.
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It seems like a cool idea &#151; sunglasses with a built-in digital music player and speakers. No headphone cables to untangle as with most portable players. Music actually riding on your ears. Zero retinal damage from ultraviolet radiation.
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Reviews of new releases by the Shanghai Quartet, Joshua Gordon and Randall Hodgkinson and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
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A start-upâs first product, modeled on the human ear, curbs background noise.
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Ahead: larger HDTV sets, better color, more playback and recording choices.
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Scientists unveil what they say could be the next generation of implants designed to offer hearing to the profoundly deaf.
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Several new online services  have emerged with their own takes on digital music discovery.
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Thereâs a lot going on under the surface of âFeel the Noise,â far more than its indefensibly generic title suggests.
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New high-quality audio files may entice audiofiles to buy classical fare on the web.
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âLaura Martho, a student at El Centro College in Dallas,â writes Anne Eisenberg (New York Times) âhas four children [and] commutes 45 minutes each way four days a week to a hospital for clinical work in echocardiology. During the commute, she plugs an iPod into her car radio to review lectures, and checks visuals during lunch.â And Marthoâs hardly alone in her studious use of iPod. Indeed, she joins an increasing number of students who take advantage of the âlecture-captureâ systems more and universities have installed to bring the art of lecture notes into the 21st century.
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A tiny portion of the inner ear has apparently ensured that we&#39;re wired for sound. Researchers have long sought the missing link in the ear&#39;s conversion of sound waves into electrical signals that the brain can recognize as distinct sounds.