Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

From Monday to Friday, the Department of Music’s Composition and Computer Technologies program will be hosting the 26th annual Technosonics music festival at University Venues and in Charlottesville.

A culture in which it’s fair to say the community which Hackaday serves is steeped in, is electronic music. Within these pages you’ll find plenty of synthesisers, chiptune players, and other projects ...

Electronic instruments have come a long way since New Order sequenced Blue Monday using binary code. Now it’s all quantised beats, USB-C, and expensive noise-cancelling headphones. And if you’re in ...

Don Buchla, an innovative designer of electronic instruments who helped develop the first line of modular synthesizers around the same time as his East Coast counterpart Robert Moog, died Sept. 14 at ...

Why does the music in Blade Runner resonate so deeply? Because Vangelis, the mad genius Greek who wrote and performed the score, relied primarily on one instrument: the Yamaha CS-80. The thing that ...

In the 1970s and ’80s, the musician Raymond Scott—whose music has been adapted for everything from Looney Tunes to The Simpsons—was hard at work on a secretive music-making device called the ...

An unassuming warehouse off Route 63 in Harleysville contains one of the world’s largest collections of vintage electronic music gear, crammed with amps, synthesizers, guitar pedals, mixing boards, ...

As tech goes, so went tech-dependent music. The evolution of electronic music coincides closely with technological advances in music production tools, and the expansion of styles can be traced, with ...

Guitarist-composer Tyondai Braxton used to play large clubs with the art-rock band Battles, and he took his “Telekinesis,” an eclectic 2022 work for orchestra and chorus, to London’s 900-seat Queen ...

Schmidt to retire after 19 years of leadership overseeing Casio's Privia, Celviano and Casiotone products in the US; Brian Piccolo to assume EMI Division responsibilities. During his nearly two-decade ...