Increasingly, composers like Bettison and Mason Bates, the Chicago Symphony’s composer-in-residence, are employing unusual musical instruments. As they would be the first to acknowledge, the ...

Cort Lippe appears in his formal photographs to be the serious-minded composer he is -- a leading figure in the international electro-acoustic music community. He is an assistant professor and ...

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 ...

Los Angeles-based Chinese composer Xiaoyi Ying has established himself as a formidable talent in the international ent ...

That was the challenge facing English composer Natalie Holt, who with her music for “Loki” becomes only the second woman to compose the dramatic score for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film or ...

By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Norwegian composer and percussionist Terje Isungset will be visiting Somerset House in London between Jan. 7 and 9 to perform a series of concerts with instruments made ...

Orchestrators translate a composer’s demo into parts for the various instruments to play — Doherty did that for a few years while attending festivals, networking and “scoring anything I ...

Which instruments were used to record the Prehistoric Planet: Season 2 soundtrack? To give the score its otherworldly, prehistoric sound, the composers designed a completely new range of instruments.

Composer Atli Örvarsson said he thought of instruments for the music of the post-apocalyptic TV series Silo that could represent loneliness.

ISIS destroyed his instruments – so he made a new one and composed an album Musician and composer Ameen Mokdad opens up about his album The Curve, which he composed while living under ISIS ...