Music

Someone recreated the Star Wars theme entirely in Logic Pro and sample libraries

It's exactly as you might expect: sample libraries are at the point of being able to convincingly recreate entire symphony...

At Black-led Willie Mae camp, music tech exploration starts at age 5 – interview

Black-led, female-led, New York-based Willie Mae Rock Camp is providing inspiration to female and gender nonbinary musicians. Executive director LaFrae...

“Words become plastic”: Stephen Mallinder, Cabaret Voltaire founder, polymath, interviewed

He's been a vocalist (as a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire), a lyricist, a vocalist. But if you know the...

‘Tis the season for ambient: bliss out to AV magic by SUIGETSU + DEFASTEN (with Notch)

When you think Christmas, you envision floating cyborg skulls with glowing wires and then let yourself drift off to some...

Emmanuel De La Paix’s Terre brûlée, scorched-earth post-ambient: interview, video premiere

Pulsing with electronic punctuation, fuzzy layers and distorted pianos across expansive introspective surfaces, Emmanuel De La Paix on Terre brûlée...

Don’t miss the haunting Standard Deviation compilation from Kyiv – and keep the power on

The situation in Ukraine grows literally darker, colder, and more urgent even as the world might want to move on....