New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has shed light on why so many students listen to background music while ...

15 Minutes Inner Focus Music for Immediate Concentration: Mindfulness Meditation Relaxing Music & Mind Power Awakening Music ...

Even when people are lying in a brain scanner, doing nothing, music that has a beat activates the motor areas of the brain. The impulse to move is irresistible; whether people are lying in a giant ...

For thirty minutes a day, I would sit down at a piano and play — or attempt to play — music by the great composers of the ...

This past Sunday, self-described Humboldt Park “listening room and learning center” Parallel Play (825 N. California) debuted Sonic Study Hall, a weekly series that invites a local artist or other ...

Colombian folk music icon Totó La Momposina, known as the “Queen of Cumbia,” has died. She was 85. The Colombian Ministry of ...

On a cold winter Saturday in Boston, where college students may typically spend the day curled up in bed watching Netflix or ...

A koto is a traditional Japanese 13-stringed instrument similar to a zither, with movable bridges for tuning. Players wear three picks known as tsume on their thumb and first two fingers to pluck the ...

Koto Kawaguchi spends his weekdays in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, working in service parts logistics for an automaker. Six days a week, he trains in table tennis. Acting was never part of the plan.

Parents may have heard varying iterations of the theory that listening to classical music can help students improve their academic performance and wondered if there’s any truth to that. And it turns ...

AOJ Language School has launched enrollment for Spring Semester 2026. Applications are accepted via the application form; the deadline is March 17 (Japan time). KOTO ...

This and other koto music we've made since are available in our Epic Japanese Koto playlists: Koto music + techno/rock! We pulled out all the stops in making this feel like an epic Japanese music ...