The Relative Pitch will offer its second session for young musicians and performers this Sunday at the Broad Street Cafe in Durham. The open mic night for kids ages 18 and under was started by Kim ...

Over the past dozen years, the New York-based label Relative Pitch has diligently promoted improvised music. Founded by Kevin Reilly and the late Mike Panico, the imprint boasts a roster of artists ...

Amy Niti shares how she discovered her perfect pitch during a jazz clinic as a teenager. In this video, she explains how her pitch recognition evolved, how it's different from others, and how you ...

The one-second squeak of an opening door produces several notes before settling somewhere around an F. Outside, a passing bus might sing in the key of C sharp. On a recent day at Au Bon Pain in New ...

Researchers have developed a unique test for perfect pitch, and have found that perfect pitch is apparently much more common in non-musicians than scientists had expected. Researchers at the ...

Ed Douglas’s article on why some people have perfect pitch (26 February, p 46) makes a number of credible proposals but does not mention mirror neurons. When a musician with perfect pitch hears a note ...

Note-to-note changes in brightness are able to influence the perception of interval size. Changes that are congruent with pitch tend to expand interval size, whereas changes that are incongruent tend ...

The ability for humans to discern changes in pitch as they listen to a speaker is essential for extracting meaning from words, and now researchers have identified a set of neurons responsible for ...