Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

Functional, polyrhythmic instruments have a commercial application, according to artist/musician Ed Potokar. Just listen. Ed Potokar is a musician who’s been playing the drums, composing (he wrote the ...

This is the history of Native Instruments’ massively influential wavetable instrument, from development and release to its ...

Last week, host Andrea Seabrook asked listeners to send in home recordings and photographs of their oddest musical instrument. The responses were eclectic, and some were indeed strange. Here is a ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...