At the dawn of electronic music, you had to be fabulously wealthy before you could even consider making a record. But now the computer on your desk and even the smartphone in your pocket are capable ...

Native Instruments is a huge player in the music production and DJ world. Its Traktor DJ software and (myriad) hardware controllers are a favorite with digital crate diggers. The company also manages ...

Paul Gardinier loves the exactitude. That’s the part of making string instruments that stands out as the Juneau man’s favorite. “It’s super precise,” Gardinier told the Capital City Weekly while ...

The craftsmanship says “fine musical instrument.” The jovial atmosphere says “fiddle.” As luthiers Steve Thomas and Gary Vessel work in their downtown Modesto shop, Thomas & Vessel Stringed ...

(RNS) — After a beloved choirmaster of a Texas church died in 2020, her congregation wanted to honor her in a unique way. The committee of Cross Tracks Church, a United Methodist congregation in the ...

Sean Pendleton started simple. “I looked into doing a MiniMoog clone, which is really all I wanted to build,” said the IT employee about the first synthesizer he made. “It just kind of all snowballed ...

Ken Butler is a Brooklyn-based artist and musician who has built over 400 musical instruments. But these aren't just any custom-built instruments. Butler builds his pieces from discarded items he ...

Harmonix achieved two unprecedented goals with Rock Band 4, and both required a lot of elbow grease. The studio conceived Rock Band 4 as a platform, designed to support as much of the music that ...

Guitars, trombones and violins are so last century. A device about the size of a credit card lets you transform a plant into a piano or make a glass of water behave like a drum. Developed by Joseph ...

Synth-pop pioneers OMD returned with their stunning 13th studio album, The Punishment Of Luxury, last week. It sees the band push themselves into a glitch-y electronic world they’ve not previously ...

Paul Gardinier loves the exactitude. That’s the part of making string instruments that stands out as the Juneau man’s favorite. “It’s super precise,” Gardinier told the Capital City Weekly while ...