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Split screen of jazz keyboardist and jazz drummer demonstrating call and response.

Call and Response

December 10, 2024
Call and response is a form of musical dialogue where one instrument plays or sings a short phrase and another responds, creating a musical conversation….
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Close up of the sun with an audio bar across showing that the sun sings, makes sound.

The Sun Sings

November 26, 2024
Are you as surprised as I am to learn that the sun “sings”? I know scientific instruments detect and monitor sounds in the universe all…
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Singer KD Lang performing Hallelujia

A Secret Chord

November 12, 2024
A friend of mine recommended a new book on music as medicine called I Heard There Was a Secret Chord — which is a line from the…
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Chaldean plate shows the form pattern made by sound vibrations

How Sound Shapes Our World

October 29, 2024
Cymatics is the study of sound made visible, showing how sound shapes our world. We don’t usually see the effect vibration has on matter. Yet…
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Hummingbird in flight near a feeder

Hummingbird Wings

October 2, 2024
Have you ever been close enough to hear the sound of hummingbird wings? I found it magical. Hummingbirds hover at an average rate of 80…
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Giraffe in motion in the wild

Giraffes Hum!

September 9, 2024
I first learned that giraffes hum to one another from reading the historical novel West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. The novel fictionalizes a 1937…
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