When Joaquin Cotler plays improvisational blues piano, sometimes he breaks the music into big pieces, and sometimes into small. The large and small cascade, with a ripple, into a stately hurtle, ...

Computers are part of the everyday sounds of our times — for a while. But as each new digital device slips into inevitable obsolescence, so do their signature sounds. Composer Matt Parker thought that ...

It's been a bit since we've heard from Itasca, the folk project led by Los Angeles-based musician Kayla Cohen. Her most recent album, Spring, came out at the end of 2019. Today, Itasca is announcing ...

The video that showed ‘Snowball’ on YouTube, around 2007, was quite a shock to me. That is to say: I thought of it as the first example of a nonhuman animal that had ‘beat induction’: the cognitive ...

The pianist couldn’t hold back tears as she played one of the world’s most moving pieces of music. A 24-year-old Japanese pianist was moved to tears during her own performance of Frédéric Chopin’s ...