On first listen, “total euphoria” sounds like the product of eight people playing completely out of sync with one another. The drums enter and exit the mix of their own accord; the guitars speed up ...

From blistering big-band jazz to throat-singing over strings, TV anime scores are wildly diverse—and they do a lot of heavy lifting to set tone, build worlds, and etch characters into memory. Below is ...

Originally released in 1983, Marco Bosco’s Metalmadeira was an innovative fusion of Brazilian percussion traditions with the emerging possibilities of electronic music. The title itself is an ...

Think percussion is just about hitting things? Think again. With instruments that shimmer, thrum, ping and even gurgle underwater, Third Coast Percussion has spent the past 20 years expanding horizons ...

They first met as students at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Now, they form half of the Yale Percussion Group — a tight-knit ensemble comprising the six students in Professor of ...

Spitfire Audio and BBC Studios have collaborated to enable musicians to download samples from the pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop The archive of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop has been made ...

The archive of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop will be made available for the first time for use by musical artists and producers, passing on a legacy that helped invent electronic music and sampling.

BBC Radiophonic Workshop Archive to be made available for the first time, passing on the legacy of the Pioneers of Electric Music to a new generation The archive of the groundbreaking BBC Radiophonic ...

Recipients of the 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant Award, Sandbox Percussion has sought to expand the breadth of percussion as an art form. One of their favorite things to do is to work with modern ...

When Robert van Sice first began teaching percussion, he, like many young teachers, worked primarily from a one-size-fits-all methodology. “You know, ‘I believe this about percussion playing, and if ...