Former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe has shared his first new song in three years, and it features a cast of familiar rock stars. I Played The Fool is the theme song for new HBO c ...

We were seeing and hearing double this weekend at Powell Hall during the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s program led by guest conductor (and beloved former music director) David Robertson. There were ...

The sounds of brass, woodwinds, and percussion echoed through the Buck Shaffer Theater at the Porterville Memorial Auditorium ...

This month, the Manoel Theatre will host a performance that challenges one of music’s most basic assumptions: that sound requires instruments. Bodyterranean, created by Italian artist and ...

Paradoxes and other mischievous pranks our minds play on us. Write on a piece of paper ‘The statement on the reverse is true’. Turn the paper over and write ‘The statement on the other side is false’.

The Zultan SlapClap puts one of the most contemporary effects cymbal types within easier reach. While it only comes in one configuration with no add-on options, variation can be achieved through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros frontman Alex Ebert defended "Home" as "a good song." The track had been deemed the "worst ...

Most of us think clapping is just about two hands hitting each other, but new research out this week in the journal Physical Review Research found that the clap that we hear actually comes from the ...

Clapping is both a scientific event and a social gesture. A study explores the complex physics behind the sound of clapping. The noise originates from compressed air, not just hand collisions.

Scientists have finally unravelled the complex process that generates sound during handclaps, a discovery that shows how even simple acts can be rich with physics. The key to generating sound from ...