The BBC has dipped into its archive once again to give us another fascinating look at how the relationship between computers and music was perceived in the late 20th century. This time, the year is ...

Changxi Zheng wasn’t a huge fan of music growing up. “When I was a child I was forced by my parents to learn violin,” he tells Inverse. But those music lessons stuck with him, and today Zheng’s work ...

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 ...

It’s a wonderful time to be an Aphex Twin fan. Until last year, the long-hibernating electronic composer/producer born Richard D. James hadn’t released new music since the mid-’00s. Then in 2014 he ...

Dan Deacon is one of the few pop electronic dance music-makers who is also consistently described as a composer. His music takes sharp turns — from raucous dance party to gentle orchestration and back ...

For all the spellbinding thrill it can weave within its veil of apparent unpredictability, music depends on plain old math. Musicians might tune their instruments to a standard pitch for a fuller ...

Researchers from New Zealand have restored the very first recording ever made of computer generated music. The three simple melodies, laid down in 1951, were generated by a machine built by the ...

It’s no secret that electronic music has been revolutionised by the personal computer, but Slub is taking things further. The group, which describes itself as a livecode trio, eschews modern software ...

We don’t think of computers as something you’d find in the 17th century. But [Levi McClain] found plans for one in a book — books, actually — by [Athanasius Kirker] about music. The arca musarithmica, ...