This is the eighth ina series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Thousands of years ago, the lithophone emerged as a signature musical instrument of the Central Highlands. Local people call it a stone gong. Thousands of years ago, the lithophone emerged as a ...

Although we commonly marvel at the countless achievements of human innovation and hail their inventors as creative geniuses, we’re virtually never privy to the actual creative process behind their ...

Initially arranging slabs of stone and clubs eroded by the movement of water to create sounds to prevent wild animals from destroying farms, a man living on the peak of Truong Son chain, which runs ...

At the Royal Opera House in Versailles, the sounds of Vietnam’s lithophone echoed, a musical gift from General Secretary, President To Lam, expressing a deep connection between Vietnam and France. At ...

Guwahati, June 5: This one sounds interesting: the original “rock music”, dating back 4,000 years. The Regional Science Centre (RSC) at Khanapara — the only one of its kind in the Northeast — has ...

An ancient lithophone, a collection of two dozen tuned rocks played in similar way to the modern-day xylophone, will be played at a concert in Paris. Prehistorian Odile Romain, alongside ...

The Rolling Stones may be the most famous group of ageing rockers, but they have nothing on this group of ageing rocks which are to be played in Paris for the first time. The ancient lithophone, a ...