The best way to describe the score and sound design for “Sicario” is “dynamic realism” because of the calculated way in which director Denis Villeneuve sucks the viewer in, then slightly unnerves us ...

Akshara, an up-and-coming, percussion-based ensemble rooted in Indian classical musical traditions, will perform Sunday, Oct. 12, at SUNY Cortland. Presented by the College’s Campus Artist and Lecture ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You have an interesting personal and professional history with Disney. What attracted you to The Jungle Book? This would be the ...

Sō is back! On Sept. 18, the percussion quartet and Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence at Princeton University performed their season opener in Princeton with a program featuring works from the ...

At the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim recently, Korg unveiled a new oriental version of its famous Wavedrum percussion synthesizer, designed specifically for Middle Eastern music. For Musikmesse 2011 in ...

Michael Glabicki, lead singer and songwriter for the band Rusted Root, is glad he has such “bad short-term memory.” The band has been together for 20 years a lifetime in the rock-music world. But ...

The four electronic albums reviewed below speak to the importance of rhythm — or maybe just drums. This music shows that cleansing bursts of energy can mesmerize as well as excite; empty musical space ...