From soothing drones and chimes to the sound of rain gently tapping on the roof - ambient music is transforming the way people sleep, focus and relax. Once an esoteric 1970s genre, mood music ...

Last Saturday, as I was putting the finishing touches on my deck — new rug, new plants, new weather-proof seat cushions — I heard the familiar tings, pings and clunketty-clunks from my three sets of ...

Christine “Tini” Alexander practices the art of sound meditation, or sound baths, through her Pendleton-based business, Resonant Recharge, which incorporates instruments like rain sticks, chimes and ...

Helen White’s Solar Wind Chimes use electromagnets and data from a NASA satellite to perform audible reports of deep space weather. In the great heliosphere of our solar system, solar wind can’t ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the late ’80s, Pauline Oliveros—an esteemed avant-garde composer, accordionist, ...

The gentle sound of handbells are expected to ring at Stepping Stones Museum for Children, 303 West Ave., Norwalk, revealing just what a set of specially tuned instruments can create when it comes to ...

iOS: ZenAwake ditches loud, sharp alarm sounds or music in exchange for a kinder, gentler way to bring you out of a night's sleep. Ten minutes before you're scheduled to wake, the app sounds a gentle ...

The crackly AM radio refractions of Montreal’s TOPS has been one of indie pop’s brightest spots over the past few years. That’s brightest both in terms of quality and in the sense of a sort of twitchy ...

Denver's Public Art Program commissioned Colorado composer Kevin Padworski to write a new piece of music, titled "Ascent," for the bell tower at the City and County Building. This probably won't come ...