Mark Jenkins meets a modular and (maybe) techno-pop innovator Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is one of the new generation of modular...
Akhnaten is a major modern opera by the famous minimalist composer Philip Glass is hailed as the leading figure in the minimalist music movement, developing the...
It’s a chamber strings library, produced with Latvian composer Vasks and featuring lots of different articulations Why are developers constantly releasing new string libraries? Because they’re...
Mark Jenkins interviews one of the world’s finest musicians and producers Steve Hillage is one of the world’s finest musicians and producers, and in the next...
Sad news as the electronic music world learns of the passing of Manuel Gottsching earlier in this month Gottsching was an innovator of the Berlin scene, initially a...
Mark Jenkins investigates a groundbreaking but still mysterious style of music A lot of the pioneering work in using day’s music technology came from the area...
Check out the original ARP Odyssey ad in here! The Alan R. Pearlman Foundation is holding an in-person/online event/fundraiser, celebrating 50 years of the famous synth....
A further blow to the electronic music community has come with the death aged 79 of Vangelis from COVID-related complications [Editor’s note: I posted some brief...
Synth pioneer best known for scoring “Chariots of Fire” (1981) and “Blade Runner (1982) Vangelis’ theme for “Chariots of Fire” was a huge hit in 1981....
He was a synth pioneer, “Krautrock” musician (former member of Tangerine Dream), and he released 60 albums… Header image: Klaus Schulze performing the Linz Steel Symphony,...
The new cinematic offering from Moog Music spotlights untold stories from some of the most important artists and innovators in modern music history. GIANTS is a platform...
If you ever want to stir up controversy, just propose ranking the world’s top synthesists. Synth and Software founding editor Geary Yelton and I tried to...
Mark Jenkins profiles one of the labels actively keeping the classic electronic music scene alive France has always been a leading region for innovation in electronic...
Have you wondered about the striking music in “Missions,” the French sci-fi TV series? Mark Jenkins did, and here’s what he found out. In fact, have...
There are wonderful musicians with massive synthesizer collections in New York, London, Paris, Berlin – but would you expect to find one in Argentina? Ernesto Romeo,...