Lace fragments used to compose scores for LACE, an ongoing project by Zeena Parkins (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Delicate and fine, Shetland lace was made popular in the 19th century ...

Fractal patterns are profoundly human – at least in music. This is one of the findings of a team headed by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen and ...

Last year, MIT researchers announced that they were turning the biochemical properties of proteins into music. Now, they’ve used those musical compositions to create entirely new proteins. Proteins ...

Researchers trying to understand how the mind comprehends music and the role that cultural familiarity plays in the process have found that exposure to music of another culture produces no differences ...

He'd been playing piano for years, yet some chord names still caused him to freeze. Instead of grinding through boring ...

Music is the Germans’ favorite art, and their approach to it has never been more aptly put than in the motto once adorning one of their most famous concert halls: “Res severa veruni gaud turn” ...

A team of mathematicians at the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind in Canada, has found that music download patterns resemble the patterns found in disease epidemics. In their paper published ...