I've been working a bit with Finale 2003 (music making software) and while I like the software, I hate the sounds that it put out. the general sounds of the instruments are very poor (a tenor sax ...

In 1922 Joseph H. Kraus proposed a “smell organ.” A middle C would smell like a rose; bass notes like clove and vanilla.

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 ...

A research project to make digital instruments sound more realistic takes a hard left turn. When Gadi Sassoon met Michele Ducceschi backstage at a rock concert in Milan in 2016, the idea of making ...

Spread the loveIf you’ve ever dreamed of making music, but felt intimidated by complex software or the prohibitive cost of studio gear, you’re in for a treat. Apple’s GarageBand has long been a ...

What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In late 2024, senior MIT postdoc Benjamin Sabatini wrote MIT Professor Eran ...

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 ...

Crisp, warm, responsive. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is on a journey to meet these benchmarks under the baton of music director Gianandrea Noseda. One of the ways in which he's shaping a new ...

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