Linus Akesson performs Marice Ravel's Boléro on a variety of homemade 8-bit instruments, including his incredible Commodordian and a C64 theremin. "The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?" he asks. "9 ...

While we have nothing against other 1980s 8-bit machines, the Commodore 64 has always been something special. A case in point: another new instrument using the C-64 and its beloved SID chip. Not just ...

In 1952, U.S. officials uncovered a Soviet bug hidden in a wooden seal at the Moscow embassy, sparking a Cold War spy race and a dramatic UN showdown. Raise your hand if you know who Lev Sergeyevich ...

Plenty of bands from the 1960s changed the way we experienced music. From The Beatles’ revolutionary way of producing pop music to the genre-broadening guitar stylings of Jimi Hendrix, plenty of 1960s ...

In the late 1950s, trombonist Paul Tanner and amateur inventor Bob Whitsell developed an instrument to mimic the sound of a theremin. The Electro-Theramin used a different control mechanism but ...

An employee wonders what to do when they don't have enough to do. Getty Images/iStockphoto I’m working from home in a new job and, honestly, I don’t have enough to do. I’ve offered to help out my ...

In a darkened movie theater, a spaceship hovers high on the big screen. Eerie music wafts in like ectoplasm filling a room. It’s strange and foreboding, like the sound of a disembodied voice, a ...

Caroline Scruggs remembers her mom handing her a violin when she was just 5 years old. That small gesture would set Scruggs on a lifelong course of musicianship, singing and songwriting — and playing ...

The Airwave is basically a tall stand with a camera on top. This camera points downward to track the player’s finger movements on a connected MIDI keyboard. Movements are tracked in real time and ...

Roli, the maker of quirky, portable, and expressive digital pianos and keyboard instruments, has a new device that can both teach budding pianists how to play music and provide seasoned musicians with ...