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 ...

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 ...

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 much-hyped great cicada invasion of 2013 didn’t materialize quite as expected (or feared) by many along the Eastern Seaboard, but anticipation of the 17-year Magicicada Brood II reemergence did ...

More info: The recital’s program will include Dvořák’s “American” quartet, Vivan Fung’s “Insects and Machines” and Cesar Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor with pianist Anton Nel You won’t hear ...

Bzzz. Bzzzzzzz. Bzzzz. That’s the sound of a house fly slowly driving you insane, but it’s music to the ears of a team of computer scientists and entomologists at UC Riverside. These meticulous folks ...

Summer is in the air and so are bugs. Rachel Martin talks to music commentator Miles Hoffman about famous works of classical music inspired by insects. Summer is in the air. So are the bugs. They're ...

Musicians typically love their guitars, but rarely does one find a musician equally interested in parasite-infected cockroaches. Then again, Gary McCallister isn't like most musicians. McCallister, 64 ...

Visionary people, a creative approach to driving people into businesses and perfect timing all play a part in making LOMA, and the city of Wilmington as a whole, a destination for live, original music ...

Last Wednesday at Oakton Park Preserve in Claridon Township, she found and recorded 13 cricket and katydid species. She's also monitoring Observatory Park in Montville Township. "People don't realize ...