A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

If you have a trained ear—or just a strong sense of music and tone—it’s easy to hear the difference between a cheap instrument and a well-made model built to resonate across the world's greatest ...

What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In late 2024, senior MIT postdoc Benjamin Sabatini wrote MIT Professor Eran ...

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In “DWI: Drinking With Instruments,” musicians played some thorny new music twice: the first sober, the second under the influence. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Midway into a performance by the ...

Texas Instruments on Wednesday agreed to buy Silicon Laboratories ⁠in a deal valuing the chip designer at $7.5 billion, to expand its footprint in wireless connectivity chips used for industrial and ...

Texas Instruments is spending $7.5 billion to buy Austin-based tech firm Silicon Labs to extend its chips enterprise. The pair reached a definitive acquisition agreement announced Wednesday, an ...

Feb 3 (Reuters) - Texas Instruments (TXN.O), opens new tab is in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories (SLAB.O), opens new tab for about $7 billion, a source familiar with the ...

Music hardware and software manufacturer Native Instruments has entered into preliminary insolvency proceedings, according to a report by Create Digital Music. This is the company behind iconic ...

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After years in the making, Texas Instruments' semiconductor factory in Sherman has officially begun production. The $40 billion factory will produce tens of millions of chips that are critical for ...

Twelve large conch shells found in Spain may have been used as trumpet-like instruments, according to new research. Two archaeologists from the University of Barcelona, Miquel López-García and ...