Electronic: a trip through the history of music
31 July 2020
With many of the world’s dance floors currently empty, the latest exhibition at the Design Museum, London, which evokes some of the same experiences, is very welcome.
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How an artist made a concert from five 40-year-old Commodore computers
9 June 2020
Soaked in the iconography of 1980s computing, the glitchy beats and green, text-based displays of Robert Henke's show, CBM 8032 AV seem an unlikely concert piece for today, but amongst today's hi-resolution graphics and sound, it's surprisingly refreshing.
MIDI 2.0: The code that will define the future of sound has arrived
6 May 2020
Four decades ago, we introduced a standard way of encoding digital sound. Its first ever upgrade could lead to new genres of music and ways of experiencing sound
Facebook AI turns your idle humming into a Bach orchestra piece
30 May 2018
Turn your whistles into sonatas with a Facebook AI that can translate between styles of music, such as converting metal riffs into symphonies
In a Spotify world, why does anyone want to listen to cassettes?
13 November 2017
A US cassette firm is spooling up production again to meet demand. Do people really want to go back to the flimsy magnetic tape of the 1980s, asks Paul Marks
