Where you going with that baton in your hand

A Guide to Recording, Electronic Music and Popular Music Courses in Britain

The first ever published guide to all Recording, Electronic Music and Music Courses available in Britain today.

The price guide to end all price guides. This time, we return to drum machines and electronic drum kits, and find a lot has changed in three months.

Electronics Into Light

Karlheinz Stockhausen has had a profound influence on modern music from the 1950s onwards, and pioneered the use of electronics to create genuinely new music. Mark J. Prendergast reviews his career.

This month’s Checklist turns its attention to the world of electronic drum kits and drum machines. Price guides will never be the same again.

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.

This month, E&MM’s unique equipment round-up turns its attention to the rhythmic world of drum machines and electronic drum kits.

Says it all really

Electronic Percussion Buyer's Guide

If you can hit it or make it sound as if you have, you'll find it listed in E&MM's exclusive rundown of what's available in the world of drum machines and electronic kits.

Composer Profiles

Exclusive guide to recording electronic music

A Young Person's Guide To Electronic Music

The father of the voltage controlled synthesiser lectures in London, and E&MM reports.

A big Austrian event that focuses on electronic music.

Computer music at Goldsmith's College

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.

Reports from the musical instrument exhibition plus interviews with five of the world's top designers, researchers and experts.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Drum Machines and Electronic Percussion

Martin Sheehan looks at recording drum machines and electronic percussion

The Syn-D-Kit

Do you turn pale at the thought of forking out for a Simmons SDS9? Do you go green with envy when friends show off brand-new Ultimate Percussion kits? Paul White's design for a build-your-unswer electronic drum hit could bring a bit of colour to your cheeks.

Technology & Education

Are you looking for an engineering career in the audio industry? Perhaps a musical technology course at the London College of Furniture might set you on the right path. Course tutor Tim Orr explains why...

European electronic music including Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder.

The European Scene

at the APRS Show

A quick roundup of who's exhibiting what at this year's APRS show.

...Beating Like This

...Beating Like This forever, and so Matt Isaacson's examination of "drum bugs" (and other nasties) and their applications for triggering electronic drum brains brings this series to a close.