Copeland’s latest album, produced with his partner, Elizabeth, was made amid financial hardship and illness’s mounting toll.
Visiting Asheville, North Carolina, in December, I walked past a sandwich board that read, “Synth you’re here, come on in.” It was a pop-up store selling T-shirts, mugs, and other memorabilia ...
Robert A. Moog, 71, who invented the Moog electronic synthesizer, a keyboard that became central to rock and electronica bands of the 1960s and 1970s, died of a brain tumor Aug. 21 at his home in ...
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 ...
Since placing classic jazz, rock, pop and church organ sounds at the feet of guitar players with the release of its impressive B9 organ machine in 2014, EHX has expanded the 9 range to include more ...
Robert Moog, the creator of the electronic music synthesizer that bears his name and that became ubiquitous among experimental composers as well as rock musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, died on ...
When it comes to interacting with art in a gallery, we’re often bound by the immutable laws of strip club etiquette: “Look, don’t touch.” Even when we’re in the presence of a piece of installation art ...
Composer Milton Babbitt, who was known for his complex orchestral compositions and credited with developing the first electronic synthesizer in the 1950s, has died. He was 94. Babbitt died Saturday of ...
The Pocket Piano might not look like much. Or it might look like an awesome, handmade marriage of craftwork and electronics (a Kraftwerk, if you will). Either way, it does a lot more than you think it ...
Best known for its boxy effects pedals for guitar and bass, Boss also makes amplifiers, wireless systems, rhythm machines, and a bunch of accessories. And now the Roland-owned company has made its own ...