What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In ...
Talking about the upcoming Mahindra Percussion Festival 2026, he adds, “Percussion itself as a form of expression lies at the heart of music. It has been the heartbeat of music from ancient tribal ...
In an exclusive interview with Firstpost’s Zinia Bandyopadhyay, Bickram Ghosh talks about Drums of the East, celebrating the ...
Mahindra Percussion Festival 2026, organised in assication with The Hindu, returns to Bengaluru with strong beats and diverse rhythms ...
Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...
The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, created during the Malian Empire by the Mandé people across regions including Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast. Picture a goblet ...
When musical quartet Sandbox Percussion headed into NPR's headquarters to record their recently-released Tiny Desk Concert, they brought a vibraphone and drum, but also ceramic bowls, metal pipes from ...
Sandbox Percussion and American Modern Opera Company brought Dutch minimalist Simeon ten Holt's masterpiece to Berkeley for a ...
Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...