Though sixtysomething Rastafarian saxophonist Cedric “Im” Brooks has been synthesizing adventurous jazz and reggae for decades, the 19-track Light of Saba is his first musical retrospective widely ...

Pianist & synthesizer legend Don Preston will be touring Europe starting in September (tour dates below). Don Preston leads a life filled with music, innovation, and experimentation in acoustic and ...

MOOG: Straight from a 5-month theatrical run, documentary on the inventor of the modern synthesizer debuts on DVD May 31st “A compelling documentary portrait...The film offers a fascinating historical ...

Herbie Hancock, who at 85 years young is one of the elder statesmen and authorities of jazz, says jazz is a spirit. Though traditions of the genre remain consistent through the decades, jazz has also ...

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 ...

Queen's eighth album, 1980's The Game, kicks off with a dramatic whoosh of noise befitting the score of a sci-fi film. It's hard to pinpoint the source: Could it be a reversed cymbal? Found sounds ...

The idea of an acoustic synthesizer might sound like an oxymoron, but it's exactly the sort of unexpected concepts that Korg Berlin was created to pursue. This independent, R&D-focused division was ...

In 1893, Thaddeus Cahill, a Washington-based, 115-pound hyper-metabolic child prodigy whose business instincts matched his scientific acumen, realized that tones generated from an electric dynamo ...