Smithsonian Magazine

See the Human Body Morph Into Musical Instruments From Around the World at a New Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A belly turns into a drum, hands mold into percussion tools and a face adorns a brass bell in this anatomical art history ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Children can make Native American musical crafts at Poway event

Children can learn about Native American cultural history while making a musical craft at a Poway event on Saturday, March 1. Docents will guide children ages 5 to 10 years old in making rattles, ...
Daily Inter Lake

Campaign for new instruments aims to make music resonate

The Whitefish Education Foundation has a momentous goal to equip over 13,500 music students with adequate instruments over the next few decades. The nonprofit’s first ever capital campaign, titled ...

‘Central to human identity’: exhibition at the Met connects bodies with musical instruments

Musical Bodies looks at 4,000 years of musical history and how humans have long forged relationships with instruments ...
RhizomeOpinion

#4: The future of AI music is making your own instruments.

The contours of contemporary debate about AI music are probably familiar to most readers of this website. On the one hand, AI ...
The New York Times

Why People Sound Like Instruments, and Instruments Look Like People

“Musical Bodies,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, revels in the blurry boundaries between humans and instruments. By Joshua Barone Visuals by Ye Fan Clap your hands. Tap a foot.
GIGAZINE

I took a look around the online museum 'Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments,' which features only imaginary instruments such as 'a piano that makes sounds with cat meows ...

The 'Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments' is an online museum created by music history and music technology researcher Deirdre Roughridge and musicologist Thomas Pateson to collect and classify ...