Where do you begin a history of electronic music and the synthesizer? The popular and somewhat easy view is that the two are entwined, that electronic music started with the invention of the ...

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 ...

Don Buchla, the electronic musical instrument designer who built one of the first modular synthesizers and whose influence on electronic music is still prevalent today, died Wednesday at the age of 79 ...

Opening on what would be his 85th birthday, the Moogseum commemorates the inventor who’s been a staple of pop music from the 1960s to today. Visiting Asheville, North Carolina, in December, I walked ...

Don Buchla, an innovative designer of electronic instruments who helped develop the first line of modular synthesizers around the same time as his East Coast counterpart Robert Moog, died Sept. 14 at ...

Ikutaro Kakehashi, the Japanese engineer who founded synthesizer giant Roland Corp. and had a defining impact on shaping the sound of electronic, hip-hop and dance music, has died. He was 87. ATV Corp ...

The process of making electronic music began more than a century ago with unpredictable and impractical 'instruments' such as the Telharmonium, Theremin, Ondioline and other exotically named ...

Google's Arts & Culture platform and YouTube have launched a new online exhibition to celebrate the history of electronic music, part of which is an augmented reality experience where classic synths ...

The urge to reinvent the norm and defy convention is intrinsic to electronic music's culture. Even at the very dawn of the electronic music age, inventors sought new and novel ways to use the ...