Composer Miya Masaoka has started playing the "Laser Koto," a futuristic version of the traditional Japanese stringed instrument, the Koto, that's been around since the 8th century. Masaoka outfitted ...

KINGSTON — Music from around the world is a mouse click away. For musician Jamie Orfanella, world music is in between his fingertips. Orfanella spent 10 years learning the art of the Japanese ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Ancient Japanese musical instruments have taken on a new shine after one group decided to make theirs out of glass, instead of traditional wood. Drums and flutes play a major ...

Pro Musica Nipponia is a group of leading composers and musicians devoted to performing classical and contemporary compositions from Japan and the West. The ensemble’s unique feature is that all music ...

Nearly 50 musicians filled the stage at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Sunday for “Between Silence and Strauss,” a cross-cultural performance by the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. Highlighting the ...

The same five o’clock concert that offered up the bizarre improvisation began with a similarly odd introduction to traditional Japanese music. Three Western ethno-musicologists were our guides to the ...