Discover 25 bizarre and unique musical instruments that defy convention. From glass armonicas to water organs, explore ...

Armed with a Harley Benton eight-string, genre-stretching Fr Dionysios Tabakis sent the music world into an unlikely frenzy ...

Born in Lebanon to a family of musicians, Huda Asfour grew up in Tunis, before moving to Gaza at 14 where she joined the National Conservatory of Music, and then lived in Ramallah in the occupied West ...

Sure, the outfits are hilariously baffling. The mystique curiously alluring. The frantic antics and manic-yet-precise playing at times jaw-dropping. But for music nerds, the real marvel of the ...

The Silk Roads Programme, a major 'Routes of Dialogue’ project, is one of UNESCO’s flagship initiatives. For more than three decades, it has served as a valuable tool for understanding how cultures ...

France will deploy tens of thousands of police nationwide and around 8,000 in Paris on Saturday to handle a fifth weekend of ‘yellow vest’ protests, although the ...

A Japanese chef and a violinist are introducing Turkish music and culture to audiences in Japan through a musical partnership that blends traditional Anatolian melodies with classical violin, while ...

Since co-founding Vampire Weekend 20 years ago and producing the band’s first three albums, Rostam Batmanglij has enjoyed a unique profile as a pop songwriter and studio wizard, especially for a guy ...

With a host of Turkish musicians, Scott Yoo explores the city. Istanbul sits at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, a melting pot of diverse peoples, languages and ideas. With star Turkish pianist ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Erdinç Eçevit, the lead singer of the rock band Altin Gün, about his band's new album, "Garip," which pays tribute to the late Turkish folk singer Neset Ertas. The ...

Singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Raghav Sachar has been adding one new instrument to his repertoire every year, calling it a “rarer than rare” gift. While most people struggle with even one ...

Time-domain simulation of woodwind instruments typically involves the development of separate discrete-time sub-models for the excitation mechanism and the resonator. These components have largely ...