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 ...

The “Changes” hitmaker opened his four-night stay at Blue Note Los Angeles on Thursday night after a sold-out run in New York ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound, revolutionizing music in the 1960s and opening the wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.

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 ...

There’s something about Frequency Modulation (FM) synthesizer chips that appeals to a large audience. That’s one of the reasons behind [René Ceballos]’s XFM project, aiming to duplicate on an FPGA the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The EP-133 KO II is more than a toy but less than a professional tool — and its creators hope it might get even ...

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 ...

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 ...