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When you’re birding by ear, you use the same skills as when you’re recognizing music; listening to sounds, patterns, changes in pitch, in tone and in volume, but in nature rather than in music. You ...

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Samorost 3 is a surreal game from Amanita Design. Atmospheric quests, unique planets, mysteries, and magic. Play for free ...

Hermeto Pascoal: the Sound of Everything article by Ludovico Granvassu, published on September 25, 2025 at All About Jazz.

To parse foreground and background sounds, the auditory cortex of humans and ferrets share a similar hierarchical organization, but the underlying computational mechanisms are fundamentally different.

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In Morocco's High Atlas mountains, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they ...

Ghost of Yōtei transports players to the early 17th century in the northern frontiers of Japan, a region known today as Hokkaido. The story follows Atsu, a protagonist who, after witnessing her family ...