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Omer Yosha has created a piano that anyone can play without knowing the keys. That’s because there are no keys – no physical ones at least.

Professor Steve Mann talks about his latest invention: the hydraulophone, a highly tactile and mellifluous water-based instrument.

Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale and an audience's expectations to demonstrate neural programming at the World Science Festival 2009.

Björk and film director Michel Gondry have started collaborating on a film, Gondry has revealed. The pair are devising a "scientific musical", which they plan to screen in museums.

A tribute to great minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music.

Images of our planet and our society. Koyaanisqatsi is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States.

It won’t necessarily be music to the classical purist’s ear, but chemists have been instrumental in revealing the secret beneath the varnish on a Stradivari violins, and the secret is: there is no secret.

The latest Top 100 list sees short attention spans, the rise of Twitter, more browser wars and celebrity gossip sites setting the news agenda.

Nowadays, with a computer it's relatively easy to perform "plastic surgery" on digital images. But what about the sound? Discover how audio software can fix bad singers...

Andrew Brown: Kepler founded modern astronomy by looking for a harmony that we wouldn't recognise as scientific at all.