Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

“Musical Bodies,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, revels in the blurry boundaries between humans and instruments. By Joshua Barone Visuals by Ye Fan Clap your hands. Tap a foot.

Researchers captured sound fields around musical triangles. They wanted to understand the physical properties of the triangle instrument, test assumptions about the contribution of the triangle shape, ...

The “Play It Loud” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art spotlights the star instruments that made music electronic, from Muddy Waters' blues axe to a shard of the psychedelic guitar that Jimi ...