Visiting Asheville, North Carolina, in December, I walked past a sandwich board that read, “Synth you’re here, come on in.” It was a pop-up store selling T-shirts, mugs, and other memorabilia ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dave Smith, a groundbreaking synthesizer designer, died on May 31 in Detroit. He was 72. The cause was complications of a heart attack, said his wife, Denise Smith. Smith, who lived in St. Helena, ...

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 ...

Next time you eat a mushroom risotto, just know those fungi were making music before sliding down your gullet. It turns out mushrooms have an electromagnetic field that makes music, and you can hear ...

Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

Loud electronic music blasting through a William & Mary library is just about as incongruous as it gets, but there it was on a Tuesday morning in Ewell Hall. Students were experimenting with various ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...