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...King Tubby’s genius, half a century ago, was to turn the recording studio mixing desk into an instrument....
...Buchla 50th Anniversary Edition Music Easel synthesiser, £9,999It might look like a retro novelty instrument, but the nursery-coloured stylings of the Music Easel synth belie its extraordinary versatility...
...If you lined it up next to a model from the early ’70s, you might hear a slight difference, but that will have more to do with 50 years of degrading electronics and build-up of dust than anything else....
...To conspiracy theorists, this wrongly tuned existence has a musical setting. The international standard for tuning instruments was agreed at a conference in London in 1939....
...He plays instruments on many of the albums. The set-up is, he concedes, “like a cottage industry”. Perhaps. But it’s a hugely successful one....
...Electronic instrument maker Roland opened its first store in London in 2022 and plans to open its second in Tokyo this year....
...The old power relationships between instruments broke down....
...For decades, corporate bond transactions were handled almost entirely by phone, with poor liquidity and the huge range of debt instruments available making electronic trading difficult....
...A show by electronic duo The Chemical Brothers last year made knockout use of the O2 Arena’s scale....
...Accentuated by the mix of electronic and organic instruments, the performance had the timeless feel of deep myth....
...“Early electronic music was tape music.”...
...instruments....
...This led to touring with Siouxsie and the Banshees in the early 1990s, then to becoming musical director for Björk’s 1993 album Debut and the tour that followed — including opening for U2 at Wembley Stadium...
...Several tracks have a dubby electronic sound pitched between The Slits and The Orb....
...The rule of Maal’s albums is that their quality is always in inverse proportion to the number of instruments deployed....
...The audience is as much an instrument for a rock singer as the microphone, and Willcox worked hers like a maestro....
...In recent years the Haitian diaspora have been engaging with the country’s musical history, from Mélissa Laveaux’s energetic, punky Radyo Siwel to Leyla McCalla’s scholarly Breaking the Thermometer, an album...
...If live music is more your thing and, like artist and designer Alec Cobbe at Hatchlands Park, Surrey, you can dedicate most of your house to an unparalleled collection of musical instruments, that is very...
...extensive repertoire of musical tools....
...YMO was very much of its time: music itself, via the newly evolving instruments of Korg, Roland and Yamaha, was changing....
...To record her vocals, she purchased a powerful Neumann microphone, a studio mainstay since the 1950s, “which I realised was a musical instrument in its own right”....
...Mostly these are recorded wind instruments with their attacks and decays snipped off to form steady drones, perhaps with electronic tuning or enhancement....
...While Beethoven sits behind Breathing Statues, Clyne’s kaleidoscopic work has channelled aspects of Irish folk fiddle, Klezmer and electronics, among many other influences....
...(synthesisers, electronic percussion)....
...At an age when many children would be picking out their first notes on the violin or the piano, she started learning the theremin: an extremely difficult electronic instrument, known for its contactless...
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