It’s hard to say for sure, but something special happens when an old instrument meets contemporary creativity. These aren’t ...

In the early years of electrification, when electricity was beginning to shape the modern world, this new technology was being put to use in many more places than turning motors and providing lighting ...

Editor’s note: Allan Maurer is a contributor to WRAL TechWire and is one of its cofounders. ASHEVILLE – Moog Music, which builds its instruments in Asheville, is updating the instrument that inspired ...

Here are some things you can hear on the new Aphex Twin EP: prepared piano, crackling breakbeats, low wooden rumblings, crunchy metallic percussion, ringing cymbals, high triangle pings, patterned ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

Yamaha has patented a performance system with a primary unit and secondary unit for electronic musical instruments. The system can switch between single and group performance modes, notifying the ...

This December marks Daphne Oram’s centenary. She was a visionary and a key influence in the history of electronic music.

What’s the strangest musical instrument? How about the sackbut, the glass armonica, the theremin, the ondes martenot, or the Telharmonium, Trautonium, or Badgermin? What’s the strangest musical ...

It seems like every week another tool emerges for making bleepy-bloopy techno music. But few of those tools come with the colorful confidence of Polyend’s newest noisemakers. The Polish music tech ...

The Telharmonium was revealed to the world in the early 1900s. This extremely heavy (as in, around 210 tons) organ-like instrument utilized electromagnetic generators, which rotated to produce pulses ...

Since the launch of the Musical Instrument Engineering program in 1998, Tufts has been bridging two constantly evolving fields: music and technology. According to its website, the program, now called ...