Brian Fogarty has been making music for more than a decade. But over the past several months, he’s started working with new ...
This story is adapted from Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction, by David George Haskell. I first held a violin in my late forties.
To experiment with “playing” the strands of a web like the vibrating strings of a musical instrument, scientists at MIT used the web of a tropical tent-web spider (Cyrtophora citricola). A rattlesnake ...