The artist's installation on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden explores the outer limits of sound and form ...

The harp has its hindrances, and a lot of composers are terrified of writing solo music for it. This instrument has 47 strings, each tuned like the white notes of a piano, with the player’s feet ...

Kouxian, or ancient jaw harp, is the earliest string instrument that has been found in China. By placing kouxian between the ...

Jennie C Jones has planted three massive instruments, played by the wind, on the roof of the Met Museum in New York.

Along the Manhattan skyline, Jennie C. Jones turns Minimalist sculptures into sonic ‘wind’ instruments. It’s the last Roof ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has unveiled its last commission for its rooftop until 2030. On view at the Iris and B. Gerald ...

Since moving to Chicago 25 years ago, Rockford-born bassist Matt Ulery has put out 15 albums of originals. His next is ...

The shapes are contemporary interpretations of string instruments featured in The Met’s collection—a trapezoidal zither; a tall Aeolian harp; and a doubled, leaning one-string. The forms are angular, ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled “Ensemble,” a site-responsive installation by artist Jennie C. Jones at a recent press conference.

Since the 1980s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has invited contemporary artists to take over its Cantor Roof Garden. In past ...

Aizada Kemel, a Kazakh ethno-musician and composer, brings the natural rhythms of the steppe to life through unconventional ...