With permission from Australia's Aboriginal people, it's time to proclaim the didgeridoo as our national instrument, writes Dean Frenkel. The didgeridoo is the sound of Australia. Many countries and ...

“Get your lips loose,” said Andrew Werderitsch to the 13 students. “Don’t worry about the spit. Get your lips as big and juicy as they can be.” No, this isn’t a class on advanced smooching. It’s a ...

BEMIDJI, Minn.-It was easy to find Janice Haworth's World Music class on Friday morning. The hum of more than 40 student-made didgeridoos-the centuries-old indigenous Australian wind instrument-filled ...

When you think of a rock band, the instruments that come to mind are drums, guitars, and maybe a keyboard. When it comes to Australian quintet King Stingray, though, the band would never think of ...

Kate Bush has never been a stranger to dismantling imaginary boundaries in music. Throughout her career, she always looked for new ways to defy convention. And her enormously dedicated fanbase is ...

The didgeridoo is, to American ears, an exotic instrument. An instrument of the Australian Aborigines, most commonly made of the hollowed-out trunk of a eucalyptus tree, the didgeridoo has had no ...

An ancient tree branch hollowed out by termites and a finely carved wooden violin—on the surface, they couldn’t be more different. But in the hands of William Barton and Ghetto Classics, these ...

Sound is generally invisible, but when William Barton plays the didgeridoo, producing a low moaning note that is unearthly and ethereal, you can practically see the long vibrations leave the end of ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...