Musicians experience Indonesian percussion for the first time and explore the sounds, rhythm, and creativity behind unique ...

The Audacity' composers on unique instruments and baroque touches to add quirk and charm to the score. Danny Bensi and ...

Duck herders in Java have been using a traditional large bamboo object called a kowangan to protect themselves against the rain. The kowangan can be worn as a hat or be placed on the ground as a ...

The 88th annual Bach Festival comes to a close this weekend with the chance for Central Florida music fans to experience two instruments rarely heard these days. The harpsichord had its heyday in ...

Movies set in the past often rely on music to tell us just where we are. Most, but not all, of the composers of this year’s period pieces felt the obligation to reflect time and place. For Ridley ...

A French horn made from a garden hose and a funnel is one of the few unusual instruments appearing in Yuba College’s Tuesday Noon Recital. This particular recital consisting of musical “oddities” is ...

Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans explain how the AMC series' unique, darkly funny tone led to the unexpected sounds and ...

Bleeding Cool: As far as the horror genre goes, are there any particular instruments that work better to experiment on and refine? I don't have it on me, but I had this instrument called an Azzam bell ...

Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping ...

Dr. Bertram Levy knows it's a monster straight out of Greek mythology, a collection of disparate, powerful features assembled into something beautiful and terrible. Into a complicated, capricious ...