The Los Angeles collective Wild Up brought its Darkness Sounding festival to New York, with some of the event’s appeal lost ...

Music has been an integral part of everyday life for centuries, from extravagantly composed musical pieces to the simple ...

Today, the pitch used may be decided by historically informed performance, adopting the likely tuning from when the music was composed. Giuseppe Verdi, for instance, campaigned for Italy to adopt ...

If we move beyond the standard tuning, these possibilities multiply, as suddenly we’re able to access voicings that are impossible – or even painful – in regular tuning. We can use the open- ...

The tuning fork was invented in 1711 in London by John Shore, trumpeter and lutenist to composers Henry Purcell and Georges Frideric Händel. 130 years later, the Ragg family started manufacturing the ...