A mysterious group of prehistoric hunter-gatherers who once inhabited the southern Texas coast may have created music in a hauntingly unconventional way—by transforming human bones into instruments.

Pianos use little hammers striking taut strings to make tones. The Mellotron used lots of individual tape mechanisms. Meanwhile, the Trans-Harmonium from [Emily Francisco] uses an altogether more ...

On this week's Rhythm Planet we check out the hang, the UFO Swiss take on the steel drum.

Per Nørgård's Symphony No. 1 was completed in 1955. A few years earlier, the composer had written a fan letter to the elderly Sibelius – who was flattered to encounter a fellow musician with such a ...

Not everything has been invented, far from it. There are many inventions that are, for the time being, only fiction, and which will see the light of day after years and decades of research. In some ...