You know the sound: It’s eerie and echoing, and it makes the little hairs on your arms stand up immediately. So many horror movies use it to create a chilling atmosphere, and even some reality shows ...

Meet Neo, an instrument that explores an intuitive, visual, and touch-based approach to playing music. When Dutch designer Lola Gielen realized that she loved making music but was terrible at it, she ...

If you're watching the second season of The Last of Us, HBO's epic video game adaptation, you'll have heard the ronroco in its hauntingly atmospheric theme song. This obscure Andean instrument, played ...

You have probably heard this sound before. This is the first thing that shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki tells people who aren’t familiar with his instrument. Maybe you’ve heard the vertical bamboo ...

In December last year, Google quietly launched a pretty cool little music-making tool as part of its Arts & Culture Lab. (So quietly, in fact, that we missed it.) This week, however, the browser-based ...