Swedish composer Fredrik Gran programs robotic arms to play bowed instruments like the cello and double bass. He also plays duets with the robots, blurring the lines between the musician and the music ...

Singer, dancer, songwriter, and producer Shakira may be adding another skill to her resume: robot technician. On Thursday, the 45-year-old Colombian hitmaker announced a new single featuring Puerto ...

There were five of us in the studio with Kris Bowers during this recording of Variety’s Behind the Song, and by the time he finished taking us through “I Could Use a Boost,” there wasn’t a dry eye in ...

Meet the “Fembot,” an entirely student-built robot constructed by the scholars at KTH, a technology university in Sweden. From listening to Robyn’s song cache, it appears that the singer has an ...

Long before Daft Punk wore helmets, the German band Kraftwerk was the original pioneer of electronic music, creating a distinct sound and aesthetic using synthesizers, vocal effects and ...

“The Wild Robot” marks Bowers’s first foray into scoring animation. He began work on the score shortly after the birth of his daughter and spent the next two years fine-tuning the music. Roz learns to ...

A music robot recently performed on stage, playing the cello with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra in Sweden. This remarkable debut, which took place on 17 October at Malmö Live Concert Hall, is part of a ...

The American pop and rock landscape of the early and mid-2010s is shaping up to be very reminiscent to the 1980s, where there is no particular stylistic dominance of any subgenre, compared to the ...

When he was in his early 20s, Pasadena-based musician George Ko was an up-and-coming pianist, following a classic path to classical music by playing pieces from Mozart, Beethoven and other masters at ...

On Thursday, the Colombian hitmaker announced a new single with Puerto Rican singer Rauw Alejandro titled "Te Felicito" and teased a futuristic, robot-themed video for the track Jack Irvin has over ...