Research shows that improvisation and creativity are good for the brain. In an episode of the Greater Good Science Center's ...

Composer sim Offbeat is out in Steam early access today, July 22nd, and I've tried playing some classic riffs in it.

The orchestra tunes, and then, in a piano concerto, the conductor and guest pianist enter, and the concert begins. You have ...

NEW YORK – Growing up, Havana Rose Liu learned to never talk to strangers. But that changed as a student at New York University, where she was mulling a career in arts therapy or alternative wellness.

For anyone who thinks they don’t make them like they used to, say hello to “Tuner,” a beautifully calibrated crime-romance with shades of “Thief” and “Good Will Hunting” and a terrific star turn from ...

The crime thriller 'Tuner' features a piano tuner turned safe cracker but struggles to maintain its momentum.

It feels too, well, easy to suggest that “Tuner” — a promising crime drama/thriller about a gifted piano tuner-turned-safe cracker — falls out of tune somewhere around its halfway point. And yet here ...

Dustin Hoffman may be 88, but his connection to the piano remains as strong as ever, both on and off the screen. In his new film, Tuner, Hoffman plays a seasoned figure in the world of piano tuning—a ...

Genre films are less about the originality of their elements than about the precision with which they’re assembled and executed, and Tuner puts them together with a virtuosity that mirrors that of its ...

Daniel Roher’s narrative debut would’ve benefitted from zagging more over its overly-predictable plot. Also starring Dustin Hoffman, the veteran leans on his natural charm in limited screen time as ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. If you'd rather not use this automated tuning, or find that it doesn't quite work, you can tap a string to tune it ...