In 2008, Korg, the music industry’s leading supplier of analog synthesizers, made waves—figuratively and literally—with its surprisingly robust DS-10, a synthesizer emulator for the original Nintendo ...

Google's Arts & Culture platform and YouTube have launched a new online exhibition to celebrate the history of electronic music, part of which is an augmented reality experience where classic synths ...

The latest virtual exhibit for Google Arts & Culture and YouTube takes a look at the history of electronic music from its inventors, artists, sounds, and technology. Google also built a fun AR Synth ...

A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer from the 1970s. The design was published in an Australian electronics magazine and sold as a DIY kit, and [LOOK MUM NO ...

Detroit techno, as one of its first practitioners, Derrick May, famously told the Face in 1988, was “like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck on an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them ...

Like few instrument designers before or since, Don Buchla wanted to change the way people thought about sound. Starting with his first electronic instrument—the Buchla Series 100—in 1963, the engineer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...