Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music once again brings you the technology behind the machines behind the men behind the music and this month once again we're offering the usual sizzling mix of news, reviews and interviews. It may not have escaped your notice that figuring prominently amongst the aforesaid is a lenghty resume on the art of making music with a Commodore 64.

Computer music is increasingly thrusting itself into people's awareness. Making creative music using a conventional home micro is not yet easy — but then neither is negotiating the north face of the Eiger on a unicycle.

Technology, nevertheless, comes to the rescue. It has not yet developed a satisfactory machine for pedalling up mountains, but the Microsound 64 — reviewed this issue — goes a long way to emancipate computer music from the boffinry of PEEKs and POKEs and machine code.