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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Matthews of the Fremont Drum Shop invites folks to sample the powerful, primal rhythms of Africa in a relaxed group setting. Students explore melodic interplay of traditional hand drum rhythms ...

THE 2026 edition of the Nations Rhythm Festival (NRF) — regarded as Africa’s first and only festival dedicated entirely to rhythm and drumming culture — was successfully held in Ibadan, bringing ...

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 ...

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún players match ...

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 ...