Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amir ElSaffar. (Credit: Daniel Wetzel) Epiphanies come, as epiphanies do, in unexpected and often far-flung settings. For ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you're a guitarist, changing the tuning of your instrument is as easy as twisting the machine ...

97 keys, and just a single octave. Take a listen to this microtonal piano, which disrupts all the standard rules of Western tuning. This extraordinary piano contains just a single octave of musical ...

Press play on any gray audio player to hear samples of microtonal compositions. Imagine drawing a sweeping landscape — Chicago’s lovely skyline, say, or maybe a sunset — but you’re stuck using crayons ...

John Beckwith, who turns 80 on March 9, recently started writing music for microtonal piano. You probably haven't seen one of these rare instruments, which look much like any ordinary piano, but which ...

Whether making microtonal pop or playing Renaissance instruments with sheep bones, a crop of bold artists are making genuinely strange music go mainstream – but are they at the mercy of the algorithm?

Epiphanies come, as epiphanies do, in unexpected and often far-flung settings. For trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, three such horizon-openers converge in his latest album, New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez ...