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A classical concert at the Barbican shows how AI interprets a recital

3 July 2019

Sight Machine, an AI project at the Barbican, shows how the algorithms used in techniques like facial detection capture the performance of a string quartet

Now The War of the Worlds has spread to inner space

23 May 2019

Carl Guyenette has turned musician Jeff Wayne's 70’s concept album into two hours of immersive terror – by putting all the tech at the service of the story

Most animals can’t keep a beat despite what Darwin believed

3 April 2019

Humans turn out to have the strongest sense of rhythm of all animals, says a new book, which makes strong evolutionary connections between music and language

An AI has created music based on Bach – but will an audience notice?

27 February 2019

An experiment at London's Barbican will pit an AI composer trained on the works of Bach against the original pieces in a concert called The Eternal Golden Braid

At London's Barbican Hall, sound and vision ushered in the End Times

1 November 2018

Two impossibly difficult pieces of music, a neural network and a curtain were the unlikely ingredients for musical triumph this Halloween

Ever ran screaming from a concert? Keaton Henson has a treat in store

16 July 2018

Aided by the performance artist Brendan Walker, the folk-rock musician is giving concert-goers at London's Barbican Hall a taste of the anxiety disorder that keeps him off the stage.

Enjoy a season of science with our 2018 UK festival picks

1 June 2018

Stumble into surprises all over the UK, from the physics of gin at WOMAD, to mind-reading at Green Man, to time deconstructed at New Scientist Live

Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell explores Bach's cosmic music

16 March 2018

A London concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment this Sunday says as much about J. S. Bach’s original audience as it does about today’s cosmology