The latest Google Doodle celebrates the musical genre of mariachi—an important element of Mexico's cultural heritage. The Doodle marks the anniversary of the week that UNESCO inscribed mariachi on its ...

Oskar Sala, an innovative electronic music composer and physicist, is celebrated in today’s Google Doodle. He is famous for producing sound effects on a musical instrument called a mixture-trautonium, ...

May 21st marks the beginning of Culture Week in Zimbabwe, and Google is joining in the celebration with a homepage Doodle game that lets you play Zimbabwe’s national instrument, the mbira. Today’s ...

The Web is making sweet music with Google’s latest doodle, a Web-based playable Moog synthesizer. The new doodle is in honor of Robert Moog, a music pioneer responsible for the modern electronic ...

One thing you can say about most biographies is that the first part is absorbing and the rest is ho-hum. How a distinguished person became a distinguished person is interesting. Not so interesting is ...

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Google released its first ever artificial intelligence-powered doodle this week to honor the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday. The doodle was released Thursday and was set to run ...

You, too, can compose like Bach. Or rather, artificial intelligence can compose like Bach. Or at least, that’s the premise of Thursday’s delightful Google Doodle, which promises to take any two-bar ...

Google, today, is celebrating the contributions Les Paul has made to the music industry by way of their latest doodle. Altering their logo to become a playable guitar, Google's engineers have devised ...

Electronica seems like a fairly recent phenomenon, but in fact much of the musical genre’s roots can be traced back a venerable 66 years to the German city of Cologne. There, three composers — Robert ...

Ludwig van Beethoven has long been considered one of the best composers that has ever lived. Now, on what would likely be his 245th birthday, Google is celebrating his life’s work with a new Doodle ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Google’s Doodles are ...