Behringer has announced the release of SD-3, a clone of the classic Simmons analogue drum synth of the same name, launched all the way back in 1978.

Synth nerds — they're everywhere. Whether they're cornering you at a party to show off their Arturia iPhone app, correcting your pronunciation of "Moog" or over-explaining just how circuit bending ...

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 ...

Synths have gone through many changes since the 1960s, evolving from early modular analog systems into computer software synths. Read on to find out more about the pioneers of their development.

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 ...

Electronic music returns to its ancestral home on November 15, when Brattleboro welcomes Circuits in the Woods.

Since placing classic jazz, rock, pop and church organ sounds at the feet of guitar players with the release of its impressive B9 organ machine in 2014, EHX has expanded the 9 range to include more ...

Wendy Carlos: A Biography, by Amanda Sewell. Oxford University Press. 264 pages. $34.95. Electronic music existed in the United States before the majority of Americans had access to electricity. The ...

Robert Moog, the creator of the electronic music synthesizer that bears his name and that became ubiquitous among experimental composers as well as rock musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, died on ...

Composer Milton Babbitt, who was known for his complex orchestral compositions and credited with developing the first electronic synthesizer in the 1950s, has died. He was 94. Babbitt died Saturday of ...