Electromotive: The Story of ARP Instruments examines the rise and fall of a pioneering synthesizer company. Just after New Year’s Day, Synth and Software announced the forthcoming documentary about...
As music evolved, repetitions became patterns, and patterns became musical meters. Meters are time signatures. While tempo is how fast the music goes, meter is how the music goes fast. Together they...
Hybrid scoring secrets and career advice from one of Hollywood’s leading composers, Trevor Morris. Trevor Morris has firmly established himself as one of the industry’s first-call media composers. Having cut his...
Three female electronic composers who made their mark in film scoring This month we pay homage to another trio of women who have made outstanding contributions...
Performed on sampled piano, two Buchla synths, and a Buchla tactile surface, his new music couldn’t be timelier. You may know him as the synthesist who...
This month, we pay homage to another trio of women who have made outstanding contributions to electronic music. In last month’s article we focused on three...
Go beyond simple repetition and explore new musical territory by composing patterns. Last month, I contemplated the concept of repetition in music. That made me hear...
Las mujeres han hecho algunas de las contribuciones más significativas a la música electrónica, y aquí rendimos homenaje a tres de ellas. Si le pide a...
Women have made some of the most significant contributions to electronic music, and here we pay homage to three of them. If you ask your average...
Movie and TV composer Michael Whalen reveals his approach to developing sounds for music. I’ve been creating sounds for more than 40 years. I coax them...
To connect with your audience, anything worth playing is worth playing again. To repeat or not to repeat? That’s this month’s question. There are all kinds...
Arturia’s recent firmware update for the MatrtixBrute opens the door to new sequencing capabilities. The Arturia MatrixBrute is a full-featured analog synth that sounds great. Arturia’s...
File away your musical ideas for future use. Think about how you make music. It can be pretty nonstop: playing, listening, producing, and posting finished pieces...
Exploring harmonic relationships beyond chords and intervals. Chords. What are chords? Oh, that’s right, they are collections of notes sounded at the same time. They have...
Make your synth talk with subtractive synthesis and ring modulation. Recently I discovered it’s easy to make surprisingly realistic vocal sounds, called phonemes, using any subtractive...