When London-based hip hop artist Louis VI looked at social media over the past few years, he kept seeing the same image: orange skies from wildfire smoke. "It was one of those strange, eerily ...

To composer Devin Arne, nature is music. The West Chester University professor and Havertown resident has been recording the sounds of that music for years. “I did a sound — sound installation (in the ...

For most of human existence, listening was closely tied to moments that carried meaning, emotion or survival. Nature supplied the backdrop – wind, water, animals – and music surfaced in hunting ...

Birds chirping in the forest, waves crashing in the ocean, and the sound of thunderstorms are some of nature's beloved symphonies. These sounds are inseparable from the human experience not only as ...

The Museum for the United Nations’ UN Live has launched Sounds Right — a global music initiative that enables Nature to generate conservation funding from her own sounds. The initiative aims to spark ...

A man perches on a rock, holding a small microphone over a roaring river, water tumbling over boulders, flanked by lush jungle and hanging vines. The Andes Mountains rise up on all sides around him, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with the multi-instrumentalist James Bishop about how he transforms recordings of natural objects into music. When the musician James Bishop hiked a section of the Pacific ...