Kampala — It does not take much energy for him to produce a venerated mixed sound at hitting the simple instrument. But this soulful mellow sound produces a dreamy effect, carrying your soul out of ...

Mogwai's soundtrack to the French drama of the same name rarely comes off overly dramatic or leading. While the musical structures are often simple, continually recasting the central motif with ...

Want to play the xylophone but don’t want to learn how? [Rachad]’s automatic xylophone might be just the ticket. It uses homemade solenoids to play tunes under computer control. Think of it as a ...

The MIDI format has long been used to create some banging electronic music, so it’s refreshing to see how [John P. Miller] applied the standard in his decidedly analog self-playing robotic xylophone.

All great musicians are misunderstood at first...unless they're as cute as these performers. A group of the National Zoo's Asian Small-Clawed Otters recently performed a genre (and species) shattering ...