Most people go to great lengths to ensure that their recording studios are quiet. But not so with composer Jesper Kyd. Sirens, car alarms, and traffic...
Charlie Tate cut his teeth by playing bass and touring with the Big Cheese All Stars and Neneh Cherry. He later formed a record label in London and became...
Guitarist Oz Noy invigorates New York City's music scene with a distinctive style that seamlessly integrates rock, jazz, funk, pop, blues, and heavy metal....
Mastering is one of those mysterious arts that you hear a lot about but rarely get a chance to witness. So I jumped at the chance when I was invited to...
The Project is the brainchild of Robert Bond and Dustin Michael. Their self-titled debut album (The Project Music, 2004) combines Bond's and Michael's...
John Medeski has been known to make strong snap judgments. Imagine this: as a child prodigy, he was groomed to become one of the country's leading concert...
Guitarist Brian Tarquin and keyboardist Chris Ingram are a successful electronic-music production duo. Their action-packed soundtracks can be heard on...
For 25 years, Tim Brady has been carving a niche for the electric guitar within classical music. Playing Guitar: Symphony #1 (Ambiances Magnetiques, 2004)...
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) is one of the hardest-working improvisational bands in show business. Founded in Atlanta in 1997, STS9 quickly gained a loyal...
San Francisco-based songwriter, vocalist, and electronica artist Artemis gained widespread notoriety with her 2001 debut album, Undone. Her follow-up...
Tucker Martine is a Seattle-based producer, engineer, and drummer who works with noted experimental musicians, such as Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz....
Since 1994, Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars have rocked dance floors while searching for uncharted sonic frontiers. We don't aim for a particular...
When describing the sound of the band Cake, many music reviewers often have to stretch their imaginations to come up with just the right words. Wry, ironic, iconoclastic, contrarian, sardonic, mechanized, organic — the list goes on and on — are all appropriate descriptions for the band's unusual sound. Although...
The art of composing music for picture has a rich heritage, dating back to the very beginnings of cinema. One could easily argue that its roots date back...
San Francisco Bay Area group PC Munoz and the Amen Corner offer a scintillating mix of R&B, funk, hip-hop, rock, and gospel. The Amen Corner consists...
John Frusciante is a man of extremes. At the tender age of 33, he's already experienced the best and worst that life has to offer. The former refers to...
Philadelphia-based singers, songwriters, and multi-instrumentalists Maggi, Pierce, and E.J. have cultivated a deceptively simple sound. Their quirky music...
I was always interested in futuristic-sounding music, says Chicago-based recording artist, producer, and label owner John Hughes III, who records under...
In these days of high-quality, easily portable studio gear, good recordings can be made in unlikely places. One such recording is the most recent release...
With his cerebral style and ivory-tower electronic music education (Carnegie Mellon, Cal Arts, and NEA Jazz grant), composer Gary Chang might have ended...
Andre LaFosse began creating improvisational, loop-based music as a student at the California Institute of the Arts, pairing a guitar with a Gibson Echoplex...
Recording acoustic instruments requires a certain level of technical prowess and an acoustically sound environment that has good isolation. Guitarist...
Electronic Musician’s interview with Neal Pogue, the Grammy-winning mix engineer behind OutKast’s mega-hit "Hey Ya" talks about his mixing methods and philosophies....
In this Electronic Musician feature, three pro engineer-producer-musicians who’ve recorded artists ranging from Tower of Power to Dwight Yoakam to Santana, give you the lowdown on getting great electric bass sounds. They’ll talk about the gear they like to use, how they like to set it, and the specific signal chains they employ when tracking bass. ...
Curtis Roads is best known as the author of several landmark texts on computer music and as former editor of the prestigious Computer Music Journal (MIT...
