Sorry to put a spanner in your kraftwerks but Techno, in case you hadn’t noticed, has got fuck all to do with technology. The sounds of Detroit were made with…
Bluffers Guide To 303:808:909
The Rise and Fall of ARP Instruments
Back in 1975, when the first issue of Keyboard hit the stands, there were only a handful of companies making synthesizers. The first polyphonic instruments had just appeared, and programmability…
The Birth of Electronic Music Recording Studios
Although experiments in recording sound onto magnetic tape began at the turn of the century, it wasn’t until the 1940’s that the first portable magnetophone tape recorder was invented in…
Leon Theremin: The Wild, The Curious And The Spacey
“I was interested in making a different kind of instrument. And I wanted, of course, to make an apparatus that would be controlled in space, exploiting electrical fields, and that…
Robert Moog (1934 – 2005): A Tribute
Electronic music is a medium of expression, not a specific type of music. When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting…