It’s hard to say for sure, but something special happens when an old instrument meets contemporary creativity. These aren’t ...

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 ...

Music history loves its legends. We hear about Elvis, The Beatles, and rock icons who supposedly invented entire genres. Yet ...

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 ...

Analog music instruments were rendered largely outdated by the 1960s, anachronistic just as the advent of electronics fundamentally changed what music could be virtually overnight. With the creation ...

Created by Erica Synths & Richie Hawtin, Bullfrog is an educational electronic music instrument designed to captivate and inspire youth and professionals alike. Bullfrog invites you to unlock ...

Electronic music is added to the inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage, acknowledgement that the artform is shaping ...

It seems like every week another tool emerges for making bleepy-bloopy techno music. But few of those tools come with the colorful confidence of Polyend’s newest noisemakers. The Polish music tech ...

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 ...