The five-day Music Current festival is a platform for the kind of experimental music that tends to fall through the cracks in Ireland’s musical life. Its artistic director, Fergal Dowling, is himself ...

Improvising music could help to improve older people's cognitive skills, such as learning and memory, according to research ...

It’s no secret that electronic music has been revolutionised by the personal computer, but Slub is taking things further. The group, which describes itself as a livecode trio, eschews modern software ...

Improvising music could help to improve older people's cognitive skills, such as learning and memory, according to research from the University of Sheffield and Western Sydney University. The study, ...

Is it possible to study creativity scientifically? That's what researcher Charles Lamb wants to know. He has been analyzing how the brain works during musical improvisation. To do so, he has been ...

Music can evoke all sorts of emotions in listeners' hearts, and in composers' minds. Brain-scanning studies of artists being creative - improvising music, rapping or drawing caricatures - showed ...

On a chilly early evening in fall 2021, during the only proper opening that west-side backyard gallery the Franklin held all year, a crowd gathered to hear improvised music. Of the handful of ...

Improvising: My Life In Music is the autobiography of Larry Coryell. The guitarist takes us through his early years, the start of his career in New York and up through the present. Coryell's is an ...