As a first-call drummer in New York City, Terry Silverlight works with many top-level musicians. He also works in his personal studio as a composer, a producer, and an arranger....
Hailing from Monterrey, Mexico, Kinky (Gil Cerezo, Carlos Chairez, Omar Gongora, Ulises Lozano, and Cesar Pliego) enjoyed breakout success in 2002. The...
Electronic Musician’s interview with Grammy Award-winning producer and engineer Frank Filipetti covers a wide range of subjects including miking drum kits, the difference between “good” and “bad” leakage, using polar patterns to your advantage, and much more....
Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron and Monster Magnet founder John McBain are the producers, engineers, and primary musicians for the psychadelic rock project the Wellwater Conspiracty. Self-taught as engineers - they both cut their teeth on 4-track cassette recorders in the predigital days - the two are not afraid to use unconventional techniques to pursue their recording goals....
Random Touch's third CD release, Hammering on Moonlight (Roadnoise Productions, 2002), is graced with complex, evolving sound sculptures and spirited...
I was probably listening to too much Esquivel and Tomita at the time, explains Joe Welsh about the genesis of Thelonious Moog. But I always wondered how...
Electronic Musician’s interview with iconoclastic producer and engineer Joe Barresi, who has worked his magic on acts such as Queens of the Stone Age, the Melvins, and Powerman 5000. He has a knack for capturing killer guitar sounds, and never loses sight of what makes music groove....
Producers Jez Colin and Matt Cooper have a wealth of album credits to their names. Colin has remixed songs by Bjork, Maxwell, Sade, and Stevie Wonder. Cooper records for U.K. label Dorado Records under the name Outside, and writes and tours with Incognito and David Sylvian. In 1998 Colin and Cooper forged a partnership as The Latin Project....
Interviews with three esteemed mastering engineers—Bob Ludwig, Stephen Marcussen, and Steve Hall—who shed light on their little understood yet extremely critical profession....
As a founding member of Nine Inch Nails, drummer-producer Chris Vrenna spent a lot of time exploring his dark side. He also spent a lot of time creating...
My main instruments are modular analog synthesizers, says Olivier Gerber, who, under the name Smoo, released Traffic in My Soul (Neuronium, 2002). Working...
GrooveLily is not your average rock 'n' roll power trio. Two out of three members have graduate degrees in music; the third graduated from Princeton with...
Dualities exist on many levels in Juan Carlos Mendizabal's music. Born in El Salvador, Mendizabal immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s as...
Some bands find their beginnings in the desire to make it big, to become popular enough to gain fame and fortune, and incidentally, to make satisfying...
Steve Tibbetts's ECM release A Man About a Horse is awash in layered guitar and percussion parts that coalesce into a variety of sonic textures. The album...
Hailing from the Seattle area, rock group Superlush is singer and songwriter Liz Aday, guitarist and songwriter Chad Quist, bassist Brian Lake, and drummer...
Ask anyone around the University of North Texas College of Music about who's doing the most exciting work in music technology, and the answer will certainly...
While manipulating digital audio is all the rage among many electronic musicians, San Francisco based composer Jerry Gerber is excited about the possibilities...
One of the ways a band can maximize the time a visitor stays at its site is to create something more than just a place to hawk merchandise. Such a site...
Brooklyn resident Tyondai Braxton expresses his art in varied contexts and mediums. Most recently, Braxton son of experimental multireedist and composer...
Tim Ramenofsky (aka Headfridge) and Gerrit Brusse (aka King Leisure) began their musical partnership in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It was there that Ramenofsky...
Few artists have taken the DIY attitude to the limits as successfully as composer, improviser, inventor, luthier, and designer Hans Reichel. For his most...
Southern California band Anything Box takes its cues primarily from British influences. Since 1986, Anything Box has investigated alternative pop, new...
Few indie jazz groups' Web sites are as attractive as Metalwood's. The band Mike Murley on saxophones, Brad Turner on trumpet and keyboards, Chris Tarry...
