Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...

Back in 2017, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston hired Shirley Hunt to play a special centennial event to commemorate a large donation of historical instruments by a museum trustee. Hunt, a Boston-based ...

A fabric-muffled bass drum thuds. Every effect emerges from a lavalike stratum of flowing sound. The scoring can fool you into thinking there’s a piano in the orchestra when what you’re actually ...

This incredible string instrument looks like it’s carved from ice – but it’s actually made of glass. Cellist Jesse Ahmann was getting fed up of playing his regular cello, so he thought he’d give ...

The Oscar-winning "Joker" composer expanded Arthur's inner anguish with a new instrument that functioned like a playable electric fence. Oscar-winning “Joker” composer Hildur Gudnadottir played an ...