The Relative Pitch will offer its second session for young musicians and performers this Sunday at the Broad Street Cafe in Durham. The open mic night for kids ages 18 and under was started by Kim ...

Amy Niti shares how she discovered her perfect pitch during a jazz clinic as a teenager. In this video, she explains how her ...

It's been a long-held belief that absolute pitch—the ability to identify musical notes without reference—is a rare gift reserved for a select few with special genetic gifts or those who began musical ...

The ability for humans to discern changes in pitch as they listen to a speaker is essential for extracting meaning from words, and now researchers have identified a set of neurons responsible for ...

Over the past dozen years, the New York-based label Relative Pitch has diligently promoted improvised music. Founded by Kevin Reilly and the late Mike Panico, the imprint boasts a roster of artists ...

Note-to-note changes in brightness are able to influence the perception of interval size. Changes that are congruent with pitch tend to expand interval size, whereas changes that are incongruent tend ...

It’s the rare ability that allows me to put a note to every sound that I hear, and I mean every sound. For example, I will hear a bird chirp and think to myself, “Oh, that’s G sharp!” My perfect pitch ...

Absolute pitch (AP) is the rare ability to identify or produce a musical note without any external reference. This phenomenon has long served as a model for investigating the interplay of genetic ...