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Interviews

The New Age Music Conundrum

Feature | Sound On Sound, Jan 1987

What is 'New Age' music? Who plays it, and why is it apparently so popular? Our resident musicologist Mark Prendergast traces its development back to the work of 'new music' composers Arnold Schoenberg and Erik Satie.

Sydney Harbours Radicals

Feature | Music Technology, Feb 1988
Sydney Music Conservatorium

Music technology Australian style. To prove that there's more to the Australian music scene than the Fairlight, Jonathan Puckeridge pays a visit to the Sydney Music Conservatorium.

Beating The System

Feature | Topic: Algorythmic Composition, Arranging / Songwriting, Composing / Art | One Two Testing, Jul/Aug 1986
Systems Music

Musical mathematics made easy

Wristy Business

Feature | Topic: Tuition / Technique | Making Music, Oct 1986

Fripp City

News | Making Music, Nov 1986

Mega Smoke

News | Making Music, Dec 1986
Goes Chrimbo Crazy

A special seasonal waft of your favourite news and gossip column, this time drifting through the whole magazine and including mini-interviews with the likes of China Crisis and jokes from the likes of us. The fun starts here.

The A-Z of Analogue - Part 2

Feature Series | Topic: Vintage Instruments | Music Technology, Sep 1993

Part 2, ARP to Buchla. Buchla? Yep, Buchla

Scanners

News | Music Technology, Feb 1994

This month's glimpse over the horizon

The A-Z of Analogue - Part 7

Feature Series | Topic: Vintage Instruments | Music Technology, Feb 1994

This month: Farfisa to Fuller.

Mind Over Music

Feature | Topic: Music Theory | Electronics & Music Maker, Feb 1984

We welcome Ian Cross to E&MM, writing about the human perception of sound.

On Stage

Music Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Sep 1984

Two sparkling summer concerts, by Ultravox and Michael Nyman.

The List

Feature | One Two Testing, Oct 1984

birthday treat: One Two staff lick pencils

Yamaha X-series MIDI System

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, May 1985
TX816 Rack, QX1 Digital Sequencer, KX88 Master Keyboard

At last, a detailed appraisal of Yamaha's state-of-the-art MIDI system. FM rack, digital keyboard recorder and master keyboard come under David Ellis' careful scrutiny.

Stockhausen sees the Light...

Feature | Electronics & Music Maker, Dec 1985

Annabel Scott sits in on 'Donnerstag aus Licht’, the latest concert excursion from a name dropped more often than milk bottles. It’s four hours long, but it’s only a fraction of the finished article.

Patchwork

Feature Downloads | Topic: Synthesizer Patches | Electronics & Music Maker, Mar 1986

The readers' synth sound page, with patches for SCI Pro One, Yamaha DX7 and Casio CZ 101 instruments, plus reviews of anew DX RAM pack and another collection of sounds for sampling.

Zlatna

Feature | Electronics & Music Maker, Apr 1986
A Music Technology Phenomenon

An exclusive report on the Eastern Bloc consortium that's preparing to do battle with the best the West can offer. Last year's Anticipation Sampler was brilliant, but the 1986 machines are better still.

Why MIDI Music Stinks

Feature | Topic: MIDI, Sequencing | Sound On Sound, Apr 1992
(Sometimes)

Just as MIDI has made it as easier to produce great music, so it has facilitated the production of worthless garbage. Paul D. Lehrman explains the problem and how to avoid it.

Technart TUK 200

Review | Music Technology, Jun 1989
Pitch-to-MIDI Conversion System

The search for an alternative to the keyboard as a MIDI controller continues - with a system from a new British company called Technart. Debbie Poyser tracks down the TUK 200.

Sing Out

Editorial | Music Technology, Nov 1991

If Led Zeppelin were active today, they'd be forgiven for recording 'The Songs All Remain The Same'. Tim Goodyer looks at technology and the singer.

Producers' Corner

Feature | Topic: Arranging / Songwriting, Composing / Art | Home & Studio Recording, Jan 1986

Neville Unwin attempts to shed some light on contemporary production and arrangement.

When The Going Gets Tough

Feature | Topic: Music Business | Music Technology, Nov 1986

Recording your own music is only the first step to getting it heard; to do that, you need to deal with A&R people at record companies. Paul Tingen meets them, and discovers why so few bands succeed in impressing them.

The List

Feature | One Two Testing, Feb 1985

Andy Partridge tracks up

Overtones

Feature | One Two Testing, Sep 1985

do you have to be a politician to have a hit

The Unholy Marriage

Feature | Topic: MIDI, Syncronisation | Electronics & Music Maker, Jul 1986
MIDI and SMPTE

Two industry standards settle their timing differences and agree to work together. Chris Meyer checks it out and discusses proposals for the MSMPTE.

Books '85

Review | One Two Testing, Dec 1985

words for the musician

 

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