Trumpets? Check. Eighty-five-ton flywheel? Check. U.K. music students incorporate the roaring sounds of a working steam mill engine into an original musical composition. Leslie Katz led a team that ...

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

In space, one cannot hear sounds. But a new musical work -- commissioned by NASA -- is based on radio waves gathered from the far reaches of the solar system. For Morning Edition, Gayane Torosyan of ...

What does the letter "e" sound like as it's being written down? Capital "A?" The word "steak?" Experimental musician Leah Reid creates new music with the sounds of writing different letters and words.

The pipe organ offers the opportunity to conduct psychoacoustic experiments in which the sound of a natural instrument can be perfectly steady and reproducible. This study takes advantage of the pipe ...

It’s not easy to write aboutsound, so maybe it’s better to start with the objects that emit them. As part of a NSF program which invites artists and writers to exploreAntarctica Cheryl spent 6 weeks ...

This Christmas BBC Radio and BBC Sounds will delight listeners with a line up full of festive joy, magical stories and musical treats. Charlotte Moore, BBC Chief Content Officer, says: “We’ve got a ...

Musicians have spent centuries flirting with technology to push the boundaries of the art, from the Theremin to mid-century tape experiments. Despite this fascination, only a tiny niche have gone so ...

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Up close, the Golden Gate Bridge is not the graceful beauty it seems from a distance. It is noisy. It hums with traffic and bellows sometimes with the sounds of foghorns. At other times, the wind ...