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When my son took me birdwatching last month as an early Father’s Day present, Harriett Pooler suggested that we bring our listening ears, too. Our destination was Baton Rouge’s Burden Museum ...
To see how locomotion evolved and how the inner ear changed over time, researchers took Lufengpithecus skulls found in China in the 1980s and created 3D CT scans of the inner ear. After reconstructing ...
Live music fans thirsty for a deep-listening experience come to Knoxville for Big Ears Festival each spring, and walking around downtown − no matter how close the venues are − can make them ...
Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.” Like much of her work, Oliveros’s “Meditations” posited listening as a fully embodied pursuit—a posture of attending to ...
Not many music festivals would take cues from Pauline Oliveros, but at Big Ears in Knoxville, Tennessee last weekend, the late electronic-music pioneer’s presence was everywhere. Her words even ...
OAKPATROL_010_CAG.CR2 Africa Williams, center, guides members of the "Feet on the Street" program across Market Street in West Oakland, on Tuesday, May 22, 2007, and they do their citizen patrol.
Eighteen New Ulm Lions and friends participated in the 14th annual Lions “D-Feet Children’s Hearing Loss Walk” on Saturday, ...
Stretching thousands upon thousands of miles under your feet, a web of fibrous ears is listening. Whether you walk over buried fiber optics or drive a car across them, above-ground activity ...
If you're looking for something sweet or savory to snack on between sets, we're sharing 10 tasty spots less than a 10-minute walk from Big Ears venues so that you don't miss a moment of the music ...