Stick with us on this one… what if music sequencers were more like boardgames? Tembo is a new device bringing a draughts / backgammon aesthetic to electronic music-making. Described as “a playful ...

Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

Next time you eat a mushroom risotto, just know those fungi were making music before sliding down your gullet. It turns out mushrooms have an electromagnetic field that makes music, and you can hear ...

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 ...

In the 1970s and ’80s, the musician Raymond Scott—whose music has been adapted for everything from Looney Tunes to The Simpsons—was hard at work on a secretive music-making device called the ...

Musical Beings launches Tembo, a digital sampler and sequencer with a unique and very analogue, wooden interface ...

Tufts musicians who spend their days as engineering majors got a rare opportunity to combine the disciplines this fall in a class entitled Electronic Musical Instrument Design. The engineering ...

Instruments that translate electronic music into physical actions and acoustic instruments that sound as space-age as any synthesizer are just some of the 20 semi-finalists in the 2015 Guthman Musical ...

Inside BOOM Club, the atmosphere is tranquil. Synthesizers and keyboards line the walls of the space with a low static hum that flows through the air like a siren call, beckoning visitors to explore ...