This article originally appeared in New Scientist. Stef Conner is a composer, performer, and musicologist with interests straddling classical and folk genres. She is working with a group that ...

What will people thousands of years in the future think of us if they listen to the music of today? What if they spin Hilary Duff and think none of us had any sense of rhythm or intonation? What if ...

Stef Conner is working with a group that recreated an ancient lyre and aims to recreate the song music of the 2nd millennium BC We have the text of lots of poems from ancient Mesopotamia, and it seems ...

Asked if she fancied making ‘extreme early music’, Stef Conner couldn’t resist. Little did she realise how extreme. She explains how she has breathed life into a 4,000-year-old language Sometimes the ...

Artscape NEO Babylon is the next edition of Abu Dhabi's art happening that will revive the music and legends of Babylonia with an evening of Mesopotamian music, ancient poetry as well as children and ...

Manmade music has been shaping our world for tens of thousands of years, long before writing, its arguably-more-tangible cousin, was born. And for thousands of years, humans have been trying to decode ...