Silence has been described as simply the absence of sound — like the end of a song just before the next one starts or the lull in a conversation. For a long time, it’s been considered the placeholder ...

Paul Simon is firm in his belief that Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" will withstand the test of time.

In 1965, Simon & Garfunkel scored their first No.1 single, with “ The Sound Of Silence ”. Written by Paul Simon, “The Sound ...

Dwight Garner's New York Times article, "Meditations on Noise," reports on three books covering the impact of sound and noise on our lives. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also ...

Maybe his greatest achievement.

Ultimate Classic Rock reports Simon wrote “The Sound of Silence” in 1964. The track, originally titled “The Sounds of Silence,” was part of the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. The album was not a ...

On Twitter last week (Nov. 20), O'Brien jokingly revealed that Disturbed's "cover of 'The Sound of Silence' is the first clip to crack 100 million views on my YouTube channel. I always knew that heavy ...

A movie trailer advertised on Facebook a new movie coming out in November about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and theologian who was killed by Hitler toward the end of WWII. His ...

Paul Simon thinks one of his songs will be heard by generations to come. In an interview with Anthony Mason on his show ...

Susan Philipsz “Study for Strings” (2012) (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) The Museum of Modern Art’s first foray into a group exhibition of sound art, Soundings: A Contemporary Score ...