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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Ancient Japanese musical instruments have taken on a new shine after one group decided to make theirs out of glass, instead of traditional wood. Drums and flutes play a major ...

A belly turns into a drum, hands mold into percussion tools and a face adorns a brass bell in this anatomical art history show ...

The IA music collective, rooted in experimental sound and visual design, explores Japan’s underground music scene. Founded by ...

This flat rectangular brass instrument has four sets of lines on it, two sets on each side. Each set consists of four nested L-shaped lines and six shorter lines that run across them. Some of the ...

Ko Tanaka, the first Off-Broadway Japanese composer known for his fusion of jazz with American musical theater and Japanese musical traditions, is composing a ballet rendition of the ...

This inventive Japanese band is giving techno music a whole new meaning as it turns old electronics into musical instruments. We all know the old adage “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is ...