On Nov. 18, composer and percussionist Eli Keszler gives a live performance interacting with his own “Northern Stair Projection,” an installation transmitting sounds from outside Boston’s City Hall ...

When Wolfgang Mozart sat down to perform his masterpieces to audiences, he tapped out the notes on a much different instrument than most pianos used today. Among the differences was the wire inside ...

Piano Wire, the excellent new group formed by former Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster men Andy Huxley and Sym Gharial plus guitarist Sean Duke and drummer Tim Venning have a killer new radio friendly ...

Researchers from Delft University of Technology and FOM Foundation have successfully made and 'tuned' the world's smallest piano wire. The wires are made of carbon nanotubes that measure approximately ...

Researches today have claimed to have engineered and 'tuned' the world's thinnest piano wires. The wires, which were made by scientists from Delft University of Technology and FOM (Fundamental ...

We sometimes forget that the things we think of as trivial today were yesterday’s feats of extreme engineering. Consider the humble pocket calculator, these days so cheap and easy to construct that ...