It’s science: ambient, chillout music is good for you...

2008-05-15T05:00:55Z

It’s science: chill out music music is good for you. According to research presented at the American Society of Hypertension’s Twenty Third Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2008), listening to just 30 minutes of rhythmically homogen...

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Miniorgan Features Vintage Musical Toys

2008-05-13T07:41:11Z

Miniorgan is a fun site that features cool vintage music toys, mostly of the 70’s and 80’s. from the author's website: "Why do I collect? As a child I always wanted a Stylophone, but my parents gave me a different Christmas present: a Lite 'n L...

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Radionomy Lets You Create Free Web Radio Station

2008-05-09T06:16:30Z

Radionomy, a Belgian startup, is a site that lets you create a free, ad-supported Web radio station The site, now in beta testing, is designed to make creating a Web radio station trivial, letting you browse through vast music, jingle and content...

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AudioTools gets virtual TR808

2008-05-09T06:01:00Z

David at Hobnox sends word that they’ve updated their browser-based virtual studio, AudioTools. Just a quick note that we just rolled out an update of the Hobnox Audiotool. As promised the TR808 is now online, along with two new stompboxes (Compr...

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Cellular Grid Machine

2008-05-01T03:15:29Z

"Cellular Grid Machine is a virtual-machine mechanism that just-so-happens-to spit out music from its auto mutating 16x16 multi-directional grid. CGM can generate hours / weeks / months / years of continual, self-modifying and self-evolving forms...

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The History Of The Doctor Who Theme Music

2008-04-27T06:51:42Z

Planet Nerd’s Dan Walmsley talks to experimental composer David Shea about the history of the Doctor Who music and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmwYggYr2o

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Roland Olbeter’s Electro-Pneumatic Instruments

2008-04-25T04:14:11Z

Set designer and robot artist Roland Olbeter has created a series of electro-pneumatic sound machines capable of performing entire string quartets. The first commissioned composition for the robotic instruments was Elena Kats-Chernin’s Fast Blue ...

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Jean Michel Jarre On The Internet, Record Labels

2008-04-25T04:05:18Z

Clash Music has an interesting interview with synth music pioneer Jean Michel Jarre. It touches on some very timely subjects, including the role of the Internet in music: The Internet isn’t the only answer I think that the Internet might become...

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Nightmares and... Ola!

2008-04-24T06:13:57Z

Jean Michel Jarre, who’s on tour with truckloads of rare vintage keyboards performing his classic Oxygène, says that the old gear posed some unique challenges at his most recent concert in Madrid: The MemoryMoog went out of tune, the same for th...

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Omnisphere Preview Remix Contest

2008-04-23T12:23:44Z

Spectrasonics announced today the beginning of their 10-week "Omnisphere Preview Remix Contest" where registered virtual instrument users can create music using special loops that Spectrasonics has created from the eagerly anticipated Omnisphere...

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