Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

A culture in which it’s fair to say the community which Hackaday serves is steeped in, is electronic music. Within these pages you’ll find plenty of synthesisers, chiptune players, and other projects ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unassuming warehouse off Route 63 in Harleysville contains one of the world’s largest collections of vintage electronic music gear, crammed with amps, synthesizers, guitar pedals, mixing boards, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to interacting with art in a gallery, we’re often bound by the immutable laws of strip club etiquette: “Look, don’t touch.” Even when we’re in the presence of a piece of installation art ...

INDIO, Calif.—Electronic music is tapping an unlikely ally to help it stay relevant: actual musical instruments. Nearly a decade after a craze for electronic dance music, or EDM, swept the U.S.

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 ...