words for the musician

The Prefab Spirit

the screening of Steve McQueen

A review for the musician

This premier producer, conductor and arranger discusses his solo album 'The Best of the Alan Parsons Project'

Featuring Ash Prema

A special report on one of Britain's premier avant garde music festivals, Musica Nova.

Dan Goldstein talks to the Can founder member whose current interests include providing the Pope with a backing band, recording with four valve tape machines, and chopping-up bits of Bulgarian folk music.

ha ha

In the '70s, Can paved the way for a generation of experimental electronic musicians. Simon Trask talks to Holger Czukay and Michael Karoli amidst the CD rerelease of their entire back-catalogue and a new LP for '89.

Says it all really

Electronics

Electronics and synthesiser music.

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.

An in depth interview with this amazing character who is now recognised as one of the world's most inventive and original electro-musicians.

Music technology consultant Martin Russ reports on the recent Conference On Reproduced Sound held by the Institute of Acoustics.

Gate, Trigger and Clock Pulses

Trigger, gate and clock pulses

Jon Hassell has been at the leading edge of new music for three decades, with major contributions to western avant garde and world music. Following the re-release of two classic albums from the early '80s, Mark J. Prendergast presents a retrospective of Hassell's work.

Can computers improve or even replace current styles of notation?

The Fishman guide to DIY synths

We start a new series on synthesis for the complete beginner. Steve Howell is the man at the helm.

Studio Sound Techniques

Making tape loops.

Rikki Sylvan