A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

High-pitched and twittering, the sounds of pre-Columbian whistling jars might fool listeners into thinking they’re in the presence of tiny, exotic birds. Equally strange are the muffled drones of the ...

New Sounds-presented performances from the finest concert halls and clubs in New York, from adventurous musicians that defy categorization. Part of Q2 Music. Modern music knows no boundaries. Q2 Music ...

Crisp, warm, responsive. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is on a journey to meet these benchmarks under the baton of music director Gianandrea Noseda. One of the ways in which he's shaping a new ...

If you have a trained ear-or just a strong sense of music and tone-it's easy to hear the difference between a cheap instrument and a well-made model built to resonate across the world's greatest ...

A new study published by researchers at the University of Bath demonstrates the positive impact learning to play a musical instrument has on the brain's ability to process sights and sounds, and shows ...