So you can’t read music. Or carry a tune. No big deal. If you’ve always dreamed of making music but can barely tell the difference between a treble clef and an ampersand, all is not lost. A new app, ...

Geometric Music is a free app (download here, or fiddle online) that takes sounds recorded from your environment and assigns them on-screen geometric shapes. Manipulating the shapes and arranging them ...

The same mathematical principles that physicists use in string theory can be applied to analyze a string quartet, a music theorist writes in this week’s issue of the journal Science. He’s devised a ...

A new way of visualising chord progressions sheds light on why conventional and experimental music compositions both sound pleasant to the ear. Musical maps made with this method could guide ...

The K-W Symphony will perform the last Intersections Series concert of the season next week with The Geometry of Music. It explores the works of the late Canadian geometer Donald Coxeter. The ...

Pulled equally by 60s ringing psych pop more California than London and sleepy 80s minimalists such as Galaxie 500 and Felt, Londoners the Clientele are a lazy push-me-pull-you of jangle and melody.

When you first hear them, a Gregorian chant, a Debussy prelude and a John Coltrane improvisation might seem to have almost nothing in common–except that they all include chord progressions and ...

A new way of visualizing Western music theory could inspire innovations in everything from musical instrument design to music composition techniques—even to new kinds of toys. If you're enjoying this ...