In his monthly column System Focus, The FADER's favorite underground music critic Adam Harper stares deep into the internet's gloom to unearth emerging musical forms. ADVERTISEMENT A simple rhythm ...

“Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.” —Edward Hirsh Rhythm. It is ...

Rhythm in music is about timing — when notes start and stop. And now scientists say they've found a curious pattern that's common to musical rhythm. It's a pattern also found in nature. Let's consider ...

Why do some people dance more rhythmically to music than others? Are these differences genetically or culturally determined? The link between musical rhythm and movement has been a fascination for a ...

Eerie wails pierce the morning calm of lowland rainforest in eastern Madagascar and are soon joined by more. The haunting cries are the song of the indri – a critically endangered, metre-tall lemur.

To human ears, the trilling of birdsong ranks among nature’s most musical sounds. That similarity to human music is now inspiring researchers to apply music theory to avian vocalizations. For example, ...

Grateful Dead‘s Mickey Hart merges music and sports in the new teaser for the upcoming film Rhythm Masters: A Mickey Hart Experience. In the ESPN film, Hart crafts an original score inspired by the ...