Upcoming systems music composer chats to Simon Trask about modern technology, Renaissance music and Belgian pop.

Steve Reich & Beryl Korot: The Cave

Pioneering documentary music video theatre

The Virgin Guide To New Music

Brian Eno

Robert Cox

Intro...

An introduction to a series on "music in which people are doing interesting, and often strange, things".

Systems Music

Musical mathematics made easy

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.

Phillip Glass

Roland MPS & MUSE

Roland's first serious venture into software takes the form of composing packages for Commodore, Apple and IBM computers. Annabel Scott checks them out.

Into the Seventies

David Pallant

Been puzzled by references to just intoned or even tempered scales, or wondered exactly what the DX7II's "microtonality" is all about? Robert Rich has the answers.

Light fantastic?

Featuring Ash Prema

An overview

Mark Prendergast presents a general overview of record labels, artists, and recordings that make up the exciting area of new electronic and experimental music in the late 1980s.

Musical theory vs. Musical reality

This month, Andy Robinson judges the case of Musical Theory versus Musical Reality.

Brian Whiting

Picking up the signals from the world of music and technology...

Two sparkling summer concerts, by Ultravox and Michael Nyman.

Synthesiser Hardware and Software for the BBC Micro

Acorn's first venture into music synthesis boasts some good-looking synthesis hardware and a music composition language - AMPLE - that grows with the user. David Ellis has the advance details.