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Album of Endangered Bird Songs Soars Above Taylor Swift to Number 3 on Music Chart
An album of Australia's most-endangered birds and their calls has sold its way into the No.3 spot on national pop charts, beating Taylor Swift...
Listen to This ‘Singing’ Lemur Species That Has ‘Common Musical Traits’ Like Humans Do
Songbirds share the human sense of rhythm, but it is a rare trait in non-human mammals—now, it's been found, we can add the indri...
Young Singer Turns Himself Into One-Man Choir by Performing All 20 Voices in Stunning Ode to Classical Music
A young singer can turn himself into a one-man choir by recording himself performing the roles of up to 20 choristers and looping them...
A Mathematician Just Made a Musical Album Entirely Composed of Black Hole Wavelengths – Listen
Seeking to combine his love of numbers and data with music and emotion, a Belgian mathematician has created an electronic music album derived from...
Stories or Music Can Synchronize the Heartbeats of Everyone Listening into a Single Rhythm
Way back in the mists of time, before Guttenberg's printing press, before the Chinese invented parchment paper, before clay tablets and papyrus, humans passed...
Plumber Has Landed Record Deal After Music Mogul Heard Him Singing –While He Fitted His Bathroom
A plumber is flush with success after he landed a record deal when a music mogul heard him singing—while he fitted his bathroom.
49-year-old Kev...
Deeply Empathetic People Process Music Differently in Their Brains
People with who deeply feel the pain or happiness of others differ in the way their brains process music, according to one study.
The researchers...
Duetting Songbirds ‘Mute’ the Musical Mind of Their Partner to Stay in Sync, Researchers Find
Art Garfunkel once described his legendary musical chemistry with Paul Simon, "We meet somewhere in the air through the vocal cords... ." But a...
Irish Musicians Saving Oral History By Recording Elders Singing the Old Songs (Watch)
A small collective of intrepid and inquisitive young Irish musicians have taken it upon themselves to rescue a tradition of song when perhaps no-one...
Visit This Nightingale Thicket and You’ll Hear a Musician Singing with Them – WATCH the Duets
Chief among spring singing birds in the hearts of poets from Nottingham to Nangarhār, the nightingale features as prima donna in the music of...
Ingenious Musician Turns Rain Drops Into Otherworldly Music – LISTEN
Music can be made with all sorts of things—including, it would seem, rain drops.
For today's moment of Zen, listen to this video. Made in...
MIT Scientists Spin Some Music Out of Spider Webs – And it Sounds Otherworldly (Listen)
Spiders are master builders, expertly weaving strands of silk into intricate 3D webs that serve as the spider's home and hunting ground.
If humans could...
Grandson Finds Grandpa’s Lost WWII Army Band Recordings –The Only Known Live Music Recording Near a Battlefield
A World War II recording that had been lost for nearly a half-century was discovered in an attic—and it’s believed to be the only...
Watch These Musicians Play Instruments Carved From Ice Inside Acoustic Igloo Concert Hall
From rare wood, to dried intestines, to horse hair dusted with crystalized pine sap, human beings will make instruments out of practically everything.
But who...
Musical Training Gives the Brain a Crucial Advantage—Especially at an Early Age, Says New Study
Neurologists looking to understand how perfect pitch affects the brain found an altogether different and inspiring conclusion about music and brain function.
They found that...
Giant Xylophone in a Japanese Forest Uses Gravity to Play the Most Ethereal Bach Music
You’re walking through a Japanese forest on the southern island of Kyushu. Among the trees you hear the sounds of bird song. A gentle...
Postman Who Started the Online Craze for Sea Shanties has Now Quit his Job to Pursue a Career in Music
Hot off the presses from the ‘Isn’t It Ironic?’ department comes this story of a seasick postman who’s about to get his 15 minutes...
‘Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical’ has Raised Over $1 Million for Struggling Actors
Some dreams seem nearly impossible: Like becoming a chef in a top Parisian restaurant when you’re a rodent, or staging a brand-new Broadway musical...
This Musician is Playing His Funkiest Beats Yet – On Some Watermelon and Kiwi Fruit
Instruments come in all shapes and sizes, but a company called Playtron has created a MIDI device that allows you to play fruits and...
COVID-Free Since April, This Island Gets to Hold Its Music Festival Today – Exactly As it’s Done for 44 Years
It's one of the longest-running music festivals and possibly the only one in Britain going ahead this holiday weekend, owing to the island being...