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The words behind the sounds on this month's CD and CD-ROM

From darkest Wales comes a powerful new PA mixer/amp that can also double as a sub-mixer for a bank of keyboards. Paul White has been using it for just that.

John Cage eavesdropped on the strange noises coming from his own imagination. Geoff Smith and Nicola Walker Smith eavesdrop on the wise words emanating from the man himself, in one of the final interviews of his trailblazing life and the last in MT's exclusive series on modern American composers.

Clive Keeler describes the building of a simple test tone oscillator which can be mounted in a patchbay if required.

Argent's Ace has a look at this year's drumming hardware.

Wild man Bill Collins looks at the Simmons SDX system and gives us a few drum patterns to try out

I used to work with this prat once who thought that I'd mis-spelt compleat when I used it in an article - sometimes you just can't win, can you? Dave Hastilow, however, is well sussed and brings you sound at a stroke.

What Is This MIDI Thing?

Mr. Ian Truss asks that most profound of questions: What is MIDI?

Garage Studio

RM reader Martin Smith talks about the trials and tribulations of building a serious home studio in his garage.

The musicians' gossip column. Stuff you wouldn't believe. (We didn't.)

more solo styles

A compact, well-specified amplifier suitable for studio monitoring and small PA applications.

Laurie Anderson, pioneer and populariser of avant-garde electronic music, and arguably the performance artist, recently brought her 'Empty Places' show to the UK. Interview by Mark J. Prendergast.

Brian Robinson

Vie Marshall asks who is A Guy Called Gerald?

Sampling clichés and how to avoid them.

The Taming of the Juice

Mains Safety - the Taming of the Juice!