Music
July 18, 2025

Italian Sound Festival Fuses History With Electronic Music To Recreate an Electrifying Arch on Stage

Live music can immerse you in the moment, making you feel as though you’re in a different world. The music itself plays a large part, but so does the visual design of the event. Architecture studio STUFISH created a striking stage design for the electronic Adriatic Sound Festival at Fano Airport in Italy from June 13 to June 14, 2025.

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Dance
July 17, 2025

Watch a Boy Perform Effortlessly Cool “Aura Farming” Moves on a Speeding Boat

Some folks are effortlessly cool, and then there’s Rayyan Arkan Dikha—aka the “Aura Farming Boy” or “Indonesian Boat Racing Kid.” Dikha proved he’s on another level with his style, poise, and confidence. In videos that have gone viral on TikTok and Instagram, the 11-year-old from Indonesia stands at the front of a speeding boat, donning sunglasses and traditional black attire while delivering a calm, smooth dance of fist rolls and arm sweeps.

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Music
July 17, 2025

Musical Instrument Museum Highlights the Shared Experience of Making Music Across the World

Music tells the story of our history and culture, and one museum showcases different instruments from around the world and across time. The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) showcases more than 4,200 instruments and associated objects (out of over 12,000) in its collection, housed over two floors of light-filled galleries in Phoenix, Arizona. Boasting a diverse, international collection, MIM recognizes that music is something we all share.

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Music
July 16, 2025

Hear What the World’s Oldest Song From Over 3,400 Years Sounds Like

Just as early humans created art through cave paintings and pottery, music has also served as a universal form of expression since ancient times. We’ll likely never get to hear the many songs that have been lost to history, but fortunately, there’s one remarkable piece of music from around 1,400 BCE that was preserved on clay tablets over 3,400 years ago. Known as the world’s oldest playable song, the “Hurrian Hymn No.

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My Modern Met

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