how your body produces sound

Editor throws shark bait — concrete boots to follow?

Music For Pleasure

The Best Approach?

Pick a number, any number... With modern equipment sounding more and more like car number plates and less and less like instruments, it could be time to return to naming gear rather than numbering it.

The Musicians Union - is it for you?

What's in it for rock musicians? A spokesperson answers your questions.

To Spend Or To Save?

This month's question: sounds or notes? Perhaps it's time for keyboard players to rediscover emotion in playing music instead of providing an intricate background for those musicians who never forgot it.

The art of perseverance.

Previous episodes of MT's definitive drum programming series have covered rhythms from around the globe. Nigel Lord takes stock and considers some patterns that belong only to the beatbox.

Who needs SCI? Billy Cowie has come up with some simple software that enables the Model 64 Sequencer to be programmed in step-time.

An overview of reviews.

Bananas and Softsels

Advice for those with unusual computers

Guitar Woodwork

Which trees die for which guitars, and why.

all publicity is good publicity - and even with limited funds, your band can still have a great image

Where the printed word fails to deliver - how much can words tell you about sounds, and what can you do to bridge the gap between them? Tim Goodyer gets semantic.