Julius Mckee is a member of The Dirty Dozen Brass Band in New Orleans. He's also one of the premier sousaphone players in the country. In the first of a four-part series, Mckee discusses the joy of ...

“Dammit Jim, I’m a hacker, not a musician!”, to paraphrase McCoy Scotty from the original Star Trek series. Well, some of us are also musicians, some, like me, are also hack-musicians, and some wouldn ...

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally holds that chords sound most pleasant when they contain notes separated by ...