Synth wizards Critter & Guitari have launched a successor to the company's first product – the Pocket Piano – in the shape of a portable music box called the 201, which sports six sound engines, a ...

Wendy Carlos: A Biography, by Amanda Sewell. Oxford University Press. 264 pages. $34.95. Electronic music existed in the United States before the majority of Americans had access to electricity. The ...

Google's Arts & Culture platform and YouTube have launched a new online exhibition to celebrate the history of electronic music, part of which is an augmented reality experience where classic synths ...

Like most advancements in music technology, the journey of virtual analogue synthesis is not a linear one – it's a story told through the various designs of many different manufacturers and brands. So ...

The early models of the synthesizer were not given a warm welcome. In the 1950s, technological developments improved the quality and usability of synthesizers. But the instrument was frequently met ...

In December 2009, Mercyhurst University music professor Albert Glinsky received an unexpected phone call that would alter the course of his life. On the other end of the line was Michelle Moog-Koussa, ...

If you’re starting to get into electronic music or need a bit of inspiration for your own music, these four synth-pop records are a few of the most memorable in the genre. And they’re still fun to ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. When Stan Smeets posted a video titled “I made a synthesizer that plays plant-based music using microscopes and ...

One particularly crafty player has managed to successfully create a working synthesizer in Dreams, which has since been made available for download. YouTuber Levi Niha shared a video of his creation ...

His innovations included the first polyphonic, programmable synthesizer and the universal connectivity of MIDI. By Jon Pareles Dave Smith, a groundbreaking synthesizer designer, died on May 31 in ...

Introducing the Solar 42 Cinematic Ambient Drone Synthesizer, a innovative instrument carefully designed by Arseny, a Ukrainian musical innovator currently based in Latvia. This state-of-the-art ...