Five Extended Piano Performance Techniques That Work Well With Electronic Music
"These techniques make the piano sound blend very well with electronic music. You get new sounds and this can inspire...
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Moments fragile, brutal, and sublime, in three new releases from Iran’s Zabte Sote label
Zabte Sote is a wellspring of inspiration, not because of some fetishization of Iran or least of all its pain,...
In Dorico 5, refined notation and more realistic playback with less effort – even in Elements
Steinberg's Dorico may be a flagship notation tool in the traditional mold, but frequent updates continue to argue for making...
Arturia Augmented BRASS makes it uncommonly easy to build up hybrid brass sounds
Arturia has rounded out its Augmented line with Augmented BRASS. It's like a hybrid brass plug-in even for people who...
Dials, punch cards, and reels: watch how electronic music was produced in 1960s Germany
Watch just how painstaking and time-consuming electronic music production was ca. mid-to-late 1960s, in this rare documentary of the German...
Brahmaputra to AI: debashis sinha on practice, body, humanness, and his double release
Composer, producer, and percussionist debashis sinha delved into spiritual spaces of his ancestral India in a double-release from late last...
MAR10: Koji Kondo, Nintendo Mario Bros composer, talks music
Happy MAR1O aka "Mario Day" - which Nintendo is going forward with worldwide, various international date formats aside. Any day...
A cheat sheet for all the wild things Noise Engineering’s Mimetic Digitalis sequencer does
This graphic will definitely not reassure folks who are afraid of Eurorack buttons that have multiple functions. But there is...
Learn modular MetaSounds in Unreal, free, and start thinking in procedural sound
It was once the stuff of dreams -- a patchable, modular environment for sound, synthesis, music, and procedural generative audio....
Here’s Jan Hammer in an 80s power suit rocking his Miami Vice theme on the Fairlight CMI
I swear this isn't a parody. It's just Jan Hammer going full-on Miami Vice to his own theme. There are...
