What does it mean to be creative? Debates around the exact definition of creativity can take up an entirely separate article, but a leading authority on the topic, Margaret Ann Boden, breaks down the ...

I ’m just a soul trapped in this circuitry.” The voice singing those lyrics is raw and plaintive, dipping into blue notes. A lone acoustic guitar chugs behind it, punctuating the vocal phrases with ...

For the past two centuries, composers, academics and fans of classical music have puzzled over Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, which he abandoned in 1822 after writing the first two movements. Why ...

So you like TNW? Then join our upcoming online event, TNW2020, you don’t want to miss it. In 2011, a programmer going by the name of Viznut published the following video on YouTube: Accompanying the ...

How your brain responds to music listening can reveal whether you have received musical training, according to new research. By applying methods of computational music analysis and machine learning on ...

The second Tuesday of October is Ada Lovelace Day, a day first founded in 2009 by Suw Charman-Anderson to celebrate the achievements of women in science. It’s named after Ada Lovelace, who is widely ...

You, too, can compose like Bach. Or rather, artificial intelligence can compose like Bach. Or at least, that’s the premise of Thursday’s delightful Google Doodle, which promises to take any two-bar ...

Groups of children work together to create and perform pieces of music. These clips are taken from the original BBC series, Compose Yourself. Suitable for: KS2 and KS3 in England and Wales and 2nd and ...