Music writers tend to be pack rats, accumulating all sorts of memorabilia over the years: gig posters, flyers and handbills; promotional trinkets and T-shirts; autographed album covers. Pete Gershon ...

With only 12 tones, Western music can sometimes seem like a limited medium. After all, there are only so many ways to combine tempo, harmony and pitch to create what we commonly recognize as music.

Local musician Lob, known around town for his all-improv group Instagon, recalls one particularly memorable show at the monthly noise-art series, Sacramento Audio Waffle, that he co-organizes. He ...

Nearly a year ago, Spotify announced that it would be paying less royalties to white-noise creators, calling the music “functional.” A new iOS app, however, aims to recognize the art of noise. “I ...

SSSSKKKCCCCH. Sssskch, sssskch. SSSSSSSSSSKKKCCH. A harsh, crisp screech bounces off the century-old brick walls in a cavernous former textile mill in Providence, Rhode Island, as Brian Chippendale ...

From concert posters to record albums, phonographs to digital music players, handheld radios to surround sound, Art of Noise illustrates how design has shaped our relationship to music over the last ...