Search / Filter Interviews



Help Support The Things You Love

mu:zines is the result of thousands of hours of effort, and will require many thousands more going forward to reach our goals of getting all this content online.

If you value this resource, you can support this project - it really helps!

Donations for January 2025
Issues donated this month: 0

New issues that have been donated or scanned for us this month.

Funds donated this month: £22.00

All donations and support are gratefully appreciated - thank you.


Magazines Needed - Can You Help?

Do you have any of these magazine issues?

> See all issues we need

If so, and you can donate, lend or scan them to help complete our archive, please get in touch via the Contribute page - thanks!

Interviews

John Chowning - TechTalk - Part 1

Interview Series | Topic: Synthesis & Sound Design | Electronics & Music Maker, Sep 1985

John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis and the man indirectly responsible for Yamaha's DX synths, receives an interrogation from Simon Trask. In the event, our man scarcely gels a word in edgeways.

John Chowning - TechTalk - Part 2

Interview Series | Topic: Synthesis & Sound Design | Electronics & Music Maker, Oct 1985

Part 2 of an in-depth interview with Job Chowning, inventor of FM digital synthesis. Simon Trask gets in a few more questions than he did last month.

John Chowning - Digital Dada

Interview | One Two Testing, Oct 1985

the man who gave FM to the DX7

This artist was mentioned in these interviews

György Ligeti - The Pioneer

Interview | Music Technology, May 1990

From artistic oppression under Stalin to contributing to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, György Ligeti has remained a true music pioneer. Simon Trask talks to a musical legend.

Excerpts from City Slab Horror

Interview | Electronics & Music Maker, May 1985

Severed Heads mainman Tom Ellard in conversation with Dan Goldstein - no one in the modern music industry is safe.

Michael Brook - In The Mood

Interview | Electronics & Music Maker, Aug 1986

A Canadian guitarist with a low profile but a high pedigree pays a visit to Britain. Tim Goodyer finds out about the infinite guitar and the infancy of FM synthesis.

We found these other (non-interview) articles that are linked to this artist

John Chowning - Computer Music at Stanford

Feature | Topic: Design, Development & Manufacture, Synthesis & Sound Design | Sound On Sound, Sep 1987

Simon Millward visits the world-renowned Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, California and talks to its famous director, Professor John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis.

This artist was mentioned in these other articles

FM Theory & Applications

Review | Sound On Sound, Jun 1987
By Musicians for Musicians

The long-awaited book from John Chowning and Dave Bristow comes under close scrutiny; Martin Russ dons his white wig...

Macro Music - Part 2

Feature Series | Topic: Computing | Electronics & Music Maker, Apr 1983

Music with Mainframe computers

Buzz

News | International Musician, Nov 1986

Everything you didn't want to know and couldn't be bothered to ask

Spatial Awareness

Feature | Topic: Effects Processing | Music Technology, Jan 1990

Stereo imaging has come on a long way from simply panning instruments between two speakers to create the illusion of a band on stage. Ernie Tello looks into state-of-the-art sound processing and what it can do for music.

Korg Wavestation

Review | Music Technology, Sep 1990
Advanced Vector Synthesiser

In their days at the top, Sequential pioneered an exciting form of sound generation called Vector Synthesis. Simon Trask witnesses its revival in Korg's Wavestation.

How East Met West

Feature | Topic: Design, Development & Manufacture | Music Technology, Nov 1986

New technology has already brought the music industries of East and West closer together, but how has that affected the music itself, and what will happen as the two cultures get closer still? Gary Larson gives his viewpoint.

Elka EK22/EK44 Synthesizers

Review | Sound On Sound, Nov 1986

Italian-designed keyboards have received mixed success over the years. Elka's old Rhapsody string synth was a popular instrument in the seventies but their main polysynth, the Synthex, failed to set the world alight. That may well be about to change with the release of their impressive 9-voice, multi-timbral, DX7-soundalike, the EK44, and the 6-voice analogue EK22. Or is it? Mark Jenkins offers his views.

Showtime!

Show Report | Sound On Sound, Jan 1987
What you may have 'missed' at the Los Angeles AES and the London Hands On Shows.

Los Angeles and London were the recent locations for two very different audio get-togethers. Paul Gilby reports on the proceedings and products shown at both the AES and Hands-On shows.

Korg DS8 Digital Synthesizer

Review | Sound On Sound, Mar 1987

Korg's very latest keyboard is non other than a touch-sensitive, sub-£1000, 8-voice FM synthesizer! Mark Jenkins managed to catch a sneak preview.

The Outer Limits

Show Report | Electronics & Music Maker, Feb 1985

Exclusive reviews of two avant garde music festivals that saw technology pushed to its creative limits, Ars Electronica at Linz and the International Computer Music Conference at IRCAM, Paris.

The Future of Synthesis

Feature | Topic: Synthesis & Sound Design | Sound On Sound, Sep 1987

With the summer shows out of the way and the forthcoming new products all unveiled, Martin Russ looks into the crystal ball and plots out his version of where the world of synthesis might be heading...

Yamaha DX7

Review | Electronic Soundmaker, Nov 1983

The new FM synthesis

Inside Views: Yamaha

Feature | Topic: Design, Development & Manufacture | Sound On Sound, Feb 1988

Having recently celebrated their first 100 years in the music industry, we thought it opportune to discover what Yamaha have planned for the next century. Paul Gilby investigates.

Music at City University

Feature Audio | Topic: Education | Electronics & Music Maker, Oct 1981

Computer music and electro-acoustic education in London.

The Original Syn

Review | Electronic Soundmaker, Mar 1985
Synclavier

The updated Synclavier with new software. We take it for a test run.

Practically FM - Part 6

Feature Series | Topic: Synthesis & Sound Design | Sound On Sound, Oct 1988

Part 6: The final episode of our series for FM synth owners, in which Martin Russ removes the mystique from FM programming. Operators at the ready!

Yamaha SY77 - Part 1

Review Series | Sound On Sound, Jan 1990
RCM Synthesizer

The DX7 captured musicians’ imaginations like no other synthesizer before or since. But the legacy of releasing endless variations on the DX theme has turned some musicians away from FM synthesis and into the waiting arms of a new generation of 'sample plus synth' keyboards. Now Yamaha are back with a vengeance, an even more powerful method of synthesis (Real-time Convolution and Modulation), and a spanking new flagship synth. But has the SY77 got what it takes to regain the hi-tech musician's vote? Martin Russ finds out.

Macro Music - Part 3

Feature Series | Topic: Computing, Synthesis & Sound Design | Electronics & Music Maker, Jun 1983

More music with mainframe computers

 

muzines_logo_02

Small Print

Terms of usePrivacy