Tired of Guitar Hero? Try jamming with your iPhone or iPod Touch and Shimon, an autonomous, marimba-playing, octopus-armed hipster robot. Gil Weinberg, director of music technology at Georgia Tech, is ...

Remember that incredible remix of the Marimba iPhone remix from earlier today? When I originally posted it, I suggested it’d make an incredible music track for an official Apple ad. Little did I think ...

In a fascinating post from Kelly Jacklin, the long time Apple software engineer details how he helped create the default text alert sound on the iPhone -- now known as the "Tri-tone" alert. The ...

Unlike a good visual design, we don’t need to be paying attention to a sound for it to use its teeth to grab our brains by the scruff and give a good shake. Maybe nothing illustrates that point better ...

Because people are sadly imperfect, cell phones ring at the most inopportune times. It happens in the movies. It happens in the opera. Rarely, though, does the art come to a halt because of a ...

Concertgoers at the New York Philharmonic Tuesday night did not have to be musicologists to work out that the marimba was not part of the famous work. Conductor Alan Gilbert halted the performance of ...

New York's Philharmonic Orchestra stopped mid-performance after an audience member's iPhone just kept on ringing. Conductor Alan Gilbert called a halt to the final movement of Gustav Mahler's Ninth ...

Occurring on Tuesday night during a performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony by the New York Philharmonic, a man’s iPhone erupted in the familiar marimba ring tone during the closing moments of the ...