Udell explains that by using LEDs, some customized software, and more than a little imagination, he converted a shop light into the Optron, the novel musical instrument they just heard.

On a Sunday night in Los Angeles in 2011, composer and instrumentalist A.R. Rahman took the stage before the assembled glitterati and millions of others watching the Academy Awards on TV.

Ran-kan-kan: Long before I could name the source of my excitement, my body responded to the strident signature of Latin dance ...

street band festival. Less heralded, however, is the region’s thriving community of musical instrument makers. From stringed instruments, to brass and woodwinds, to huge pipe organs, they ...

Almost anything can be a musical instrument. A horse’s jawbone? A couple of rocks, a stick, and some string? An armadillo shell? A box with a constantly buzzing antenna sticking out of it?

Ignatius’ writings themselves, however, show a different tendency. There, instrument both serves as a central spiritual category and bears a positive connotation. In the Constitutions ...

In fact, according to an article in Nature Scientific Reports, researchers recently identified seven woodwind instruments within the rubble from the region, which were made to mimic the sounds of a ...

Bulbul tarang, shahi baaja, benjo. Rarely has an instrument had so many names as vivid as the music it produces. The bulbul tarang, whose origins can possibly be traced to the Japanese taishogoto ...