Category: Electro

Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music The journey continues with more research into the history of experimental and electronic music. This is a real gem of a combo CD/DVD/Booklet. ...

This is part five of a series on noise, experimental and electronic music. Each volume has two disks and a very informative booklet that gives clues to how the sounds were made. It’s a lot to get through, but well worth it for those interested in this ...

Experimental/Avant Garde research My current musical interests have strayed somewhat from my acoustic past. I am studying electronic, ambient and experimental music in a number of forms. This is not likely to surface on an album for another couple years, but I have started posting some of my experiments via ...

My early music production experience (12-13 yrs old) consisted of a Casio keyboard, $50 Randix dual cassette deck boom box, Radio Shack DJ mixer, hand-me-down short-scale Telestar bass and a Harmony acoustic guitar. My father also built a number of effect boxes and gadgets that I’d play with ...

One of the electro-related concepts that I have been studying… The Fragmented Orchestra is a huge distributed musical structure modelled on the firing of the human brain’s neurons. Twenty-four sites around the UK are connected to each other to form a “neural” network. The sonic information captured at these sites ...

In the late 80s and early 90s, public radio programs like “Music from the Hearts of Space” and “Echoes” heavily influenced me. Those programs were a acquired taste, often broadcast at ridiculous hours late at night. Whether on my little transistor radio or my cheesy black and chrome boom box, ...