Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The standard configuration of the symphony orchestra has remained mostly unchanged for the past century. But innovative artists ...

As Seth Colter Walls wrote here yesterday, New York has lately been an excellent place for exploring the “difficult music,” the Stockhausens and Cages, of the past 50 years. Much of this music—which ...

A mesmerizing world of sounds exists beyond the conventions of melodic development. Among the prime inhabitants of this special realm are percussion instruments, which explore matters of rhythm, ...

Soundiron says that Click Click Bang! is a hybrid sound-effect and percussion instrument designed for sound designers, experimental musicians, and music producers. This is what they have to say about ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

Sound Magic has announced availability of China Percussion, its latest hybrid modelling virtual instrument for Mac (AU 32-/64-bit, VST 32-/64-bit) and Windows (VST 32-/64-bit). They describe it as a ...

The ancients believed that the Earth was surrounded by celestial spheres, which produced divine music when they moved. We lived, so to speak, in a huge musical instrument. This may sound silly but ...

In 1914 Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs published a taxonomy of musical instruments based on how an instrument’s sound is produced. Those that make a sound when a stretched membrane is ...

The ancients believed that the Earth was surrounded by celestial spheres, which produced divine music when they moved. We lived, so to speak, in a huge musical instrument. This may sound silly but ...