To most of us, it’s a plague. After 17 years underground, the cicadas invade, blanketing lawns and streets, flying uninvited into faces and droning incessantly. But to David Rothenberg, the sound of ...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote a whimsical piece for his opera “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” that always commands my attention. I don’t care the instrument (and I’ve heard many, from piccolo to tuba and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. DR: This is definitely one of the most surprising sounds I came across in all of my research. The voluminous underwater scratching ...

The sounds insects make are abstract and arcane, but they form a distinguished mode of music for David Rothenberg, a self-styled specialist and creative connoisseur of the bug-borne arts. "There's a ...

The percussion picks up its beat and pitch in the heat of the evening, gradually slowing and lowering the pitch as the temperature drops. Some claim to be able to tell the temperature by listening to ...

Insect has been appointed to create a website for Chrysalis Music. The site, which launches in early June, avoids a corporate style and has an ‘urban, more youthful and gritty edge’, according to ...