Our experience of musical intervals and the uncanny “sameness” of octaves is encoded in our neuroanatomy. The neuroscience of music is rich, complex and not without controversy. But some things are ...

Every piano the world over has the same user interface: 88 keys, arranged linearly in a standardized order, with a series of 12 notes repeated again and again at higher and lower pitches. But what if ...

The aesthetically appealing Rudra veena emanated music that touched us like the soothing zephyr on an early summer evening at Saptaparni amphitheatre. It was a privilege to listen to Ustad Bahauddin ...

EMI Music North America is making preparations to fold the Higher Octave label into Narada, sources say. Higher Octave, which was sold by Matt Marshall to EMI more than five years ago, was founded in… ...

Musical history has been punctuated by gifted families. Motown had the Jacksons, surf-pop has the Wilsons, hard rock has the Van Halens, and techno has the Burdens. Brothers Lenny and Lawrence Burden ...

The brand new DSD version of The Complete Bach Cello Suites by Zuill Bailey is now available from Octave Records as a download. I don’t care if you love classical music or not, but some recordings ...