There’s death metal, there’s ambient music… but Napalm Death’s Shane Embury is creating ambient metal?! Mark Jenkins investigates this tale of chalk and cheese. Shane Embury...
Aufbruch, the title of the debut collaboration between electro-acoustic composer J. Peter Schwalm and guitarist Markus Reuter. The title translates as “departure” or “emergence” – Aufbruch feels like both an...
Mike Oldfield’s instrumental rock epic launched Virgin Records and featured in “The Exorcist.” And now it’s back on stage – with a ballet. MARK JENKINS reports from...
It’s surprisingly simple, and here’s how he gets it (you can too!) Michael Whalen has scored literally hundreds of films, TV scores, and commercials. He also...
Film composer/Nine Inch Nails member collaborates with Spitfire on a “brutalist” sample library of hits, loops, and “warps” Brutalist architecture is a stark style, usually featuring...
Mark Jenkins on creating those classic abstract synth sounds that can take the place of a drum fill Some of the earliest pure synthesizer music albums...
PAMA, the Professional Audio Manufacturers Association, publishes “Recommendations for Neutral Nomenclature in Professional Audio” This very interesting release came across our desk this morning, and we...
Synth and Software asked their contributors to come up with a list of their favorite soundtracks that use synths prominently, and here’s what they came up...
Corea wins Grammys for Best Jazz Instrumental Album: “Trilogy 2,” and Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “All Blues,” his 22nd and 23rd (on top of 67 nominations)...
Muralist Rogert Vargas’s pays tribute to guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with a mural on the wall at Guitar Center Hollywood. The mural shows Van Halen...
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,...
Synth and Software polled our contributors to come up with a list of our favorite 21 electric piano performances of all time. Today we take Fender...
Alan Parsons’ Art & Science Of Sound Recording (ASSR) announces ASSR-Online — a new recording course, taken exclusively online, allowing anyone to learn from anywhere! ASSR-Online is an authenticated training program...
Electronic music pioneer and recording artist Suzanne Ciani will offer a unique, immersive live listening experience for AES Show attendees. The AES Show Fall 2020 Convention...
About this Month’s Cover Jean-Michel Jarre may be the best-known synthesist in the world, but he rarely tours the United States. The only time I’ve seen...