“It” is the sound of the analog synthesizer, a machine originally designed to mimic acoustic instruments but whose unique timbres — created by routing electronically-generated tones through filters ...

Over the last year or so, Sam Battle of YouTube channel Look Mum No Computer has been gathering together interesting tech and gadgetry from the past and musical curiosities of his own design for a ...

EMERYVILLE, Calif. (KTVU) - It's by appointment only and you may not have known it exists, but this Friday music gear lovers may want to check out the Vintage Synthesizer Museum as it celebrates their ...

There’s a good chance that the first thing you hear when you walk into the back corner studio at Oakland’s Compound Gallery is the sound of acid. Acid house, a genre of music spawned in mid-1980s ...

For his four-album, multiyear project Synthetic, pop-electronica party starter Rich Aucoin used vintage synthesizers housed at Calgary’s National Music Centre. Some of the instruments were set up in ...

Lance Hill dismounted his bike and, using two hands, opened a steel sliding door in an industrial complex in Emeryville. Inside, he flicked a few switches, prompting lights and a barely perceptible ...

Obsolete frames this EEI #59 clip from a Ramsgate museum keeping synths, test gear, and old electronics working.