A primer on medieval chants, minimalist opera and everything in between.

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As AI songs get harder to tell apart from human-made music, an older technology offers a revealing preview of the fight over ...

The grungy, extraterrestrial “Mk.gee tone” is everywhere and depends on a decades-old device.

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Yunluo (a set of gongs) is an ancient Chinese instrument made of copper that generates sound with a small mallet. Gongs with different sizes and pitches are put together to make a yunluo, which ...

Since the beginning of her music career with Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon has been an influential figure for the alternative rock ...

The gong, also called a "ringer", is a traditional Chinese metal instrument that produces loud and long sounds. Having no fixed pitch, there are many shapes and types of gongs that deliver varying ...

Hellman’s is finally answering the question on everyone’s minds: Is mayonnaise an instrument? The question was infamously first posed about 25 years ago by the lovable starfish Patrick on “SpongeBob ...

Since Patrick Star first posed it to Squidward Tentacles, the internet hasn’t been able to get the question, “Is mayonnaise an instrument?” out of its collective head. Luckily, experts have finally ...

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.