The secretive father of electronic music, Raymond Scott, tried to create a self-generating music machine called the Electronium. Now his vision has been brought to life Next Big Things in Tech ...

Unlike other music genres, the evolution of electronic music has been closely linked to technological innovations. The 1950s saw the development of early analog synthesisers created by RCA (Radio ...

This 100-year-old musical instrument is squarely in the latter category, and this build brings the sound of it back to life. The instrument was called the Luminaphone and was originally built by ...

These considerations have led some musical instrument design teams to employ a mixed-signal ASIC (Figure 3). An audio ASIC answers each of the three problems of a discrete design while serving as the ...

It's no secret that there's a growing interest in synths, drum machines and other electronic music instruments. There are many reasons for that -- most obviously because electronic music is now ...

VideoIt was one of the most successful failures in tech history. Released in 1982 and written off as a disaster just two years later, the Roland TB-303 synthesizer looked set to be little more ...

A number of pivotal instruments that shaped the history of electronic music are on display at the exhibition, which opened on March 25. This list includes the likes of the Fairlight CMI, the first ...