Stand near a river and you’ll hear a symphony of sounds: birds chirping, frogs croaking and water flowing. But what would it sound like if the stream itself could be transformed into classical music?

When Andrew Bird is improvising with, by turns, a violin, guitars, a glockenspiel, and the looping pedal that helps him construct his signature polyrhythmic tracks, he often loses himself. “You’re in ...

Annea Lockwood thinks of rivers as “live phenomena” that are constantly changing and shifting. She’s been drawn to the energy that rivers create, and the sound that energy makes, since she first ...

Listen to Universe of Art on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn or your favorite podcasting app. You can read a transcript for this episode here. Annea Lockwood thinks of ...

A riverside tract that includes wetlands, forest and colorful native plants also attracts a sky full of birds. Bird enthusiasts found that out at the invitation of the Watershed Conservation Resource ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The case of the river tern is a curious one. The medium-sized gray bird with a forked tail, a black cap and a white belly is quite common along ...

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