A thin, breathy note escapes from a bone flute. A surnay cuts sharply through the air, while layered percussion echoes like distant footsteps across mountain villages. Sounds once carried by shepherds ...

Changxi Zheng wasn’t a huge fan of music growing up. “When I was a child I was forced by my parents to learn violin,” he tells Inverse. But those music lessons stuck with him, and today Zheng’s work ...

Edible instruments have been created, using ice-cream activated by the player's tongue I keep my hands hovering in the space between an elevated lamp and a square white box that resembles a washing ...

Loud electronic music blasting through a William & Mary library is just about as incongruous as it gets, but there it was on a Tuesday morning in Ewell Hall. Students were experimenting with various ...

Sarah Roundy shows an audience member how to play the video game she coded for her project. Roundy explained how synesthesia results from the neurons in the brain, and how this game is accurate to ...

It’s a wonderful time to be an Aphex Twin fan. Until last year, the long-hibernating electronic composer/producer born Richard D. James hadn’t released new music since the mid-’00s. Then in 2014 he ...

Mountain melodies, centuries-old instruments and traditional rhythms are being digitally preserved through a new open-access music platform. The archive aims to reconnect contemporary creators with ...