Illustration of the Archimedes automatic wind instrumentalist (image courtesy Hatje Cantz) In 2009, Tokyo’s Waseda University built a fedora-sporting flautist robot powered by cranked air. But this is ...

Musicians were beaten by ISIS religious police in Syria for playing an “un-Islamic” keyboard — and the brutes then destroyed the players’ instruments. The ISIS enforcers were seen striking the men ...

Asia Society presents the Alim and Fargana Qasimov Ensemble, offering New York audiences a rare opportunity to experience Azerbaijani classical music, or mugham, a modal art music popular among the ...

Besides ability to provide precise measurements of altitude, local time, and position of starts, al-Khujandi’s astrolabe is of astounding beauty. Credit: The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha: Marc ...