Distortion, originally considered an undesirable side effect of overloading audio equipment, has become a key element of countless genres of modern music. The history of distortion truly begins in the ...

If you follow audiophile reviewers, you’ll know that their stock-in trade is a very fancy way of saying absolutely nothing of quantifiable substance about the subject while sounding knowledgeable ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

In 1936, Isabel Morse Jones, a music critic for the Los Angeles Times, made a modest boast: “We in the west have been permitted freedom to develop our music in our own way to a certain extent, because ...

Okay, I'm really annoyed here. I was listening to "U2 - Beautiful Day" recently and I'm cranking up the volume and the music sounds like absolute SHITE! I'm not talking about the talent of the band ...

Humans are the only creatures that make music purely for the enjoyment of those listening—but now computers want to get in on the act. We have just learned that Sir Paul McCartney has used artificial ...

A forthcoming exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is making the case that music is as much a sonic experience as it is a visual one. “Art of Noise” will gather a staggering 800 art ...

In March, we saw the launch of a “ChatGPT for music” called Suno, which uses generative AI to produce realistic songs on demand from short text prompts. A few weeks later, a similar ...