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Like the landscape, each city has a unique soundscape. In addition to the typical sounds of traffic and people, San Francisco has some identifiably unique sounds like cable cars, fog horns, trolleys and on occasion, the Blue Angels performing overhead. Almost all of us delight in these sounds because they help define the sense of place. They heighten our everyday experience. Sounds are an integral part of our experience, as you know if you've ever been to a carnival, sporting event or marketplace. And recalling sounds often brings back vivid visual memories of a place or time.

The sound of silence. The title of a 1964 Simon & Garfunkel song seemed appropriate Thursday as ESPN televised the opening round of the first fall Masters golf tournament.

"The 68,338 fans that packed into CenturyLink Field set the world record Sept. 15 for noise at an outdoor sports stadium at 136.6 decibels, propelling the Seahawks to a rousing 29-3 home-opening win over NFC West rival San Francisco. The previous record was 131.76, set at a Turkish soccer club game March 8, 2011, and the loudest CenturyLink had ever been before was 112 decibels."

"The 80-acre green space is the Buitenschot Land Art Park. Its trenches and ridges hold bike paths and sports fields, but these recreational features are a bonus. Its main purpose is to deflect ground noise, the low-frequency drone that planes make when they take off and land."

"The work features the televised footage of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao's highly publicized and most lucrative boxing match at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, in May 2015, billed as "The Fight of the Century". Removing the fight's original audio.A second video channel shows the sound technicians, the Foley artists, as they distill and recreate these sound effects in their studio using a myriad of props. Mirroring the boxers' athleticism and focus, the Foley channel plays in sync with the fight channel, each placed on opposing sides in the gallery space."

"A fossilized ankylosaur voice box reveals that these beasts may have sported a far more sophisticated vocal range than scientists originally thought."

As you're tuning your speakers in preparation for Live in Concert, listen to "RAGE (After Tokyo 2020)," DJ Mars89's new mix in response to the Tokyo Olympics-and in opposition to hollow celebrations of national identity and false displays of unity. Moving between speeches, industrial noise, deconstructions of traditional Japanese instruments, and protest music, Mars89 channels the widespread anger at the Olympics: a self-aggrandizing indulgence pushed through by the country's elites during a pandemic, at incredible cost to the people. The mix is published as part of Unknown States, an issue devoted to the fictions that give rise to nations and nationalities.

"Encountering a boxing match projected on the wall of a darkened room is pretty unlikely while roaming around Chelsea galleries - unless you're at a Paul Pfeiffer show."