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 ...

For Broadway’s “Beetlejuice” (opening April 25 at the Winter Garden Theatre), it was up to sonic mastermind Peter Hylenski to design the fantastical world from a sound perspective. That also means, ...

A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its lines encode mechanisms for the planning, composition, analysis, ...

RR-126 Radio-Phonograph, 1965; Designed by Achille Castiglioni and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni; Manufactured by Brionvega, S.p.A; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Gift of George R. Kravis II, ...

In response to Liane Hansen's question about hearing a trumpet that reminded her of Herb Alpert, musician Ben Vaughn said, "that was the guy who played in the Liberace Orchestra for 15 years." In post ...

AI-powered creative tools in 2026 are transforming workflows across music, design, and art, offering speed, customization, and new modes of expression. From AIVA’s instant multi-genre music generation ...