Learning to play a musical instrument produces such profound changes in children's brains that kids actually can hear and process sounds they couldn't hear otherwise, according to researchers using ...

The octobass is a huge stringed instrument that is twice the size of a double bass when standing, about 3.6 meters, and the strings cannot be pressed as they are, so the strings are pressed with a ...

Using motorcycles to add a bit of flavor to certain songs is not a new thing, but having the sounds of a bike sampled and used as actual phrases is something truly interesting. Youtube artist Big ...

Coca-Cola unveiled Coke SoundZ, an instrument that plays the “uplifting sounds” of its Zero Sugar soda using artificial intelligence (AI) technology, per details shared with Marketing Dive. Consumers ...

This is the second article in a series imploring STEM workers, students, and entrepreneurs to learn to create music. The first article explained why playing an instrument or producing music has many ...

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

Some of the strangest sounds in scifi movies and television come out of equally strange musical instruments. Here are three weird instruments you’ve probably never seen, but have almost definitely ...