5 things to know about Daphne Oram, the visionary pioneer in electronic music

This December marks Daphne Oram’s centenary. She was a visionary and a key influence in the history of electronic music.

"The answer might sound a little boring, but it's probably my iPhone": Modeselektor on their go-to instrument

Based in a new studio, Berlin’s favourite sonic troublemakers crash the DJ-Kicks series with a shape-shifting ...
Us Weekly

‘The Sound of Music’ Cast: Where Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and the Rest of the Stars Are Now

The Sound of Music’ cemented Julie Andrews as one of Hollywood’s most enduring stars when it was released in March 1965 ...
Game Rant

5 Experimental Games That Sound Stupid Until You Actually Play Them

Each of these games had some very experimental ideas, but formed them into solid, enjoyable games that surely surprised many ...

How to emulate the sound of Gary Numan’s synth-pop classic Cars

We lift the bonnet on a foundational piece of synth genius, and demonstrate how you can achieve its distinctive sound ...
QNS

Piano power: The sound of success. Steinway continues stringing successes together

Steinway is a well-known name that’s music to a lot of people’s ears in Queens, including Steinway Street, one of the borough ...
Music Ally

BBC Radio 1 names its 10 ‘Sound of 2026’ emerging artists

It’s time for the British music industry to indulge in its favourite festive argument: why [Artist X] shouldn’t be included in BBC Radio 1’s annual ‘Sound Of’ list tipping new music for the next year.
IEEE

Use of Speaker Recognition Approaches for Learning and Evaluating Embedding Representations of Musical Instrument Sounds

Abstract: Constructing an embedding space for musical instrument sounds that can meaningfully represent new and unseen instruments is important for downstream music generation tasks such as ...