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 ...

Mack Bartsch doesn't just make electronic music: the 16-year-old DJ also makes electronic instruments. Bartsch, who goes by the stage name spaceprodigi, recently constructed a synthesizer as part of ...

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 ...

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, ...

The building’s walls sometimes shake with a sonic rumble. Other times, it’s like a spaceship is flying overhead or as if the electronic duo Daft Punk has reunited in this pleasant industrial park in ...

BRATTLEBORO — She's been called the "Diva of the Diode" and the "Queen of Quadraphonic Sound." Those are apt descriptions of Suzanne Ciani, a legendary synthesizer composer and electronic music ...

Herbert A. Deutsch, a composer who collaborated with engineer Robert Moog in the 1960s to invent a portable electronic music synthesizer that revolutionized the sound of rock, classical and other ...

The word “vintage” has carried drastically different meanings within the world of musical instruments. In the realm of electric and acoustic guitars and amplifiers, “vintage” in recent years has ...

His innovations included the first polyphonic, programmable synthesizer and the universal connectivity of MIDI. By Jon Pareles Dave Smith, a groundbreaking synthesizer designer, died on May 31 in ...

For music geeks, building a synthesizer has always been a way to experiment with sound, far beyond what commercial synths will allow. But for those who have never picked up a soldering iron, it can be ...

Colorado has a bevy of great synthesizer artists, and not all of them are producing electronic dance music. We searched far and wide to create a list of synth masters, with a particular focus on ...