audio: A song promoting a "rhythm for success," to inspire footballers to score more goals during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, has been composed by a Durham University researcher using a ...

For the first time ever, an animal has been documented making tools to create music. Male palm cockatoos, Probosciger aterrimus, use their enormous beaks to break off sizable sticks from trees and ...

Like humans, chimpanzees drum with distinct rhythms – and two subspecies living on opposite sides of Africa have their own ...

Don’t worry, the rhythms themselves aren’t random! That would hardly make for a useful drum machine. [kbob]’s creation does have the ability to randomly generate functional rhythms, though, and it’s ...

Smash Drums is a drum-based rhythm game that’s officially coming to Oculus Quest on June 17th, 2021. Created by indie studio PotamWorks, Smash Drums will launch on App Lab with 21 indie songs, which ...

Theodore Zanto, PhD, wouldn't call himself a musician. But he knows an awful lot about how the human brain processes music. A neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Dr ...

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results, publishing in the Cell ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It's a scientific fact that music controllers can make any game better, and Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival might just be the best example. While ...

Chimpanzees Drum With Regular Rhythm When They Beat on Tree Trunks, a Form of Ancient Communication Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees ...

In this combination of photos provided by researchers, a wild male chimpanzee drums on a buttress tree while producing a pant-hoot call as he joins his groupmates in the Budongo Forest of Uganda in ...