| 单词 | synthesizer |
| 例句 | Nico opens up a bass synthesizer and uses the computer keys to lay down a bass line. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Also, to save money, a synthesizer would be used to accompany the recordings rather than authentic instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z A synthesizer, it seemed, or maybe an electric organ. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s pretty easy. You open the synthesizer and record a melody. Then you add background chords and harmonies. And then you mix in other instruments.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Mendel, the monk, was an isolator; Darwin, who had once aspired to be a parson, a synthesizer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He lived with a hole in his throat, spoke through a computer synthesizer, typed words by batting his eyes as a sensor picked up the movement. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded as if it were being generated by a primitive speech synthesizer, like those used in Q*Bert and Gorf. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z On the track "Nowhere," that means a forward-pushing tune drenched in distortion, with synthesizer twinkles — something like bedroom punk rock. Review roundup: five local, late-summer albums of note 2011-08-19T19:01:15Z I thought I was going to play guitar or the synthesizer and they said, “No, just talk. Tell us all the secrets of your life.” Giorgio Moroder Is the Godfather of Modern Dance Music 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Juul began working on his own music in his home studio with his synthesizers and laptop. Indians interview: The beauty in forgetting what you've learned 2013-02-28T03:22:00Z The producer Opal-Kenobi supplies loops of blurry, undulating piano chords and synthesizer swoops, shifting pitch every so often. Drake Looks for Love, Repeatedly, and 9 More New Songs 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z “Didn’t Care” revels in an unexpected romance with a euphoric blend of Afro-pop guitars, Balkan choral harmonies and bubbly synthesizers. Sylvan Esso’s New Album of Electro-pop Challenges All Expectations 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Country-road helicopter shots, a synthesizer barrage and the presence of Ms. Crampton all advertise the director’s fondness for 1980s American movies. Review: In ‘Road Games,’ a French Hitch Turns South 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z A pioneer of American electronic music, Ms. Oliveros worked with magnetic tape and prototype synthesizers from the early 1960s. An Unfinished ‘Phantom Opera’ Is Completed With Love 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z He became a founder and director of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, where the synthesizer was installed. Avant-garde composer Milton Babbitt dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:55:09Z She was among the first to use an analog synthesizer, and invented a creative method of activating it through her voice. Annette Peacock Has Been Improvising Music for 7 Decades. Her Life, Too. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z During “River Dreams,” the album’s centerpiece and Glenn-Copeland’s first new song in 16 years, he chants wordlessly and reassuringly over gossamer synthesizers and an upright bass’s ostinato strut. Listeners Found Beverly Glenn-Copeland. It Was Time. 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “To argue that sound design is a solely technical pursuit would be akin to arguing that the musicians playing synthesizers in the orchestra pit are simply technicians,” Mr. Furiga said. Tony Committee Decision to Drop Sound Design Awards Prompts Noisy Outcry 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z He went on to be one of its foremost practitioners in the synthesizer era. Ilhan Mimaroglu, Composer and Producer, Is Dead at 86 2012-07-18T23:23:40Z It’s a potpourri of experiments, balancing the frayed energy and funky sparring of his 1970s fusion records with layers of synthesizer and protean harmonic movement. What ‘Rubberband’ Reveals About Miles Davis’s Final Act 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Yet organs, synthesizers and electric pianos are crucial to the sextet’s sound, as the jaunty synth-pop riff slipped into the opening “In Chains” demonstrated. Review | The War on Drugs: Layers, textures and an up-to-date take on psychedelic rock 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z His band swirled four-chord repetitions around him from various synthesizers, and at one point he dramatically walked off stage and let the Nintendo sounds hover. Truckasauras rocks hard, salutes the '90s at Barboza 2012-06-29T18:19:13Z Then came a bristling electronic excursion: the cryptic love song “Art of Almost,” which blipped and buzzed with synthesizers over a motoric ostinato, building to a frenetic squall of guitars. Music Review: Wilco at Central Park SummerStage - Review 2011-09-25T22:40:39Z With the guitar-shaped synthesizer around his neck, Hancock was able to move from the side to the center of the stage, interacting closely with the others. Herbie Hancock stretches out and enjoys the jams at Kennedy Center 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Kidjo is probably Africa’s most widely respected international vocalist, and one of its hungriest synthesizers of culture and ideas. It’s Angélique Kidjo’s Birthday, and Her Country’s Too 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The group coneys a carnival atmosphere on the opening "One Foot," with bright synthesizers suggesting circus themes and balloons bounding in the air. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z That’s not to say Dreijer has blunted their signature power to provoke, though: The song is hard-hitting and unpredictable in its structure, full of warping synthesizers and eerie, helium-pitched backing vocals. Bruce Springsteen’s Exuberant Soul Cover, and 10 More New Songs 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z “It’s like playing a synthesizer versus a piano; they both are capable of creating beautiful sounds with very different tones and personalities,” Lorenzen said. This DIY tattoo trend will make you wince — or want one yourself 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Alone onstage, Ms. Peacock played music from throughout her career on piano, synthesizer and the occasional drum machine. Annette Peacock Has Been Improvising Music for 7 Decades. Her Life, Too. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Their productions also infuse some mixes with noise; burbles and blotches of synthesizer distortion erupt on the edges of “Hard Feelings,” like the psychic storm behind the song’s attempts at a merciful breakup. Lorde Learns She Can’t Party Away Her Melancholy on ‘Melodrama’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Gone were the saxophones and synthesizers: “Faith” seemed to offer us the real, raw him. George Michael’s Pop Paradise 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Bush’s voice is deeper and more resonant than on earlier records, the use of the synthesizer is more assured, and the experiments are never awkward, as Bush’s sometimes can be. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z He’s known for his bubbling, effortless attack and his fondness for rare iterations of the guitar — including a 15-string harp guitar and a guitar synthesizer. National Endowment for the Arts Names 2018 Jazz Masters 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z “Jejune Stars,” from the new album, started thumping, partway through, with a four-on-the-floor drumbeat and 1980s synthesizer tones suitable for the Radio City strobes. Music Review: Soul-Baring Offered Amid Glitter 2011-03-09T22:23:04Z Brian Weitz, who mans the synthesizer sounds in the band under the moniker Geologist, was one of the main champions of “Tangerine Reef.” Animal Collective wants to do their own thing and that means saving coral reefs 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The album is filled with near-subliminal details like those: furtive guitar licks, cymbals tapping quietly against the main beat, squirmy little synthesizer lines. The Internet Gives a Human Touch to Digital-Era R&B on ‘Hive Mind’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Unlike a piano or organ, early synthesizers, like the Moog and ARP, could generate only one note at a time. Dave Smith, Whose Synthesizers Shaped Electronic Music, Dies at 72 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z In the early 80s, experiments with synthesizers and electronic drums carried Summer to new success. Donna Summer dies of cancer at 63 2012-05-17T16:26:00Z There’s music from Zimbabwe in there, too, which is a little more complicated, and synthesizers and electronic music.” Wild Belle a brother-sister combo on the rise 2012-09-11T04:53:00Z Seattle acts are making varied and worthwhile music with computers, synthesizers, and samplers, self-releasing great albums and getting signed to overseas labels. Best Seattle pop music, 2010: arcs and top ten 2010-12-30T10:57:06Z If Basquiat was a great synthesizer who “came in swinging for the museum collection,” as Tate puts it, Rammellzee was a visionary, profoundly suspicious of mainstream acceptance. Review | From Basquiat to ‘Black Panther’: How graffiti went mainstream 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Guitar heroes have receded from the spotlight, and even in Nashville, once nicknamed Guitar Town, studio production is frequently powered by drum machines, programming and synthesizers these days. Brothers Osborne Want to Bring Guitar Heroes Back to Nashville 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Writing, recording and producing largely on her own as Flock of Dimes, she also relies on synthesizers and programmed beats. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z He left town with his synthesizers and attempted to work on an album. For a Kyiv Techno Collective, ‘Now Everything Is About Politics’ 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The sounds of acoustic instruments and echoes of African and Celtic music are upstaged by synthesizers, samples and programming. 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z Dubstep is dense and bass loving; trap is hollow, with sparse bass lines, nasal synthesizer riffs and spatters of snare drum. Critic’s Notebook: Electric Zoo Festival Cut Short by Two Deaths 2013-09-01T22:23:22Z “I always did think I’m prettier when I’m unhappy/So do you,” she adds, as synthesizers bubble up behind her. Beyoncé’s Anthem for the Unique, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Its songs layer together low-fi clatter and unabashed pop tunes, acoustic guitar licks and analog-sounding synthesizers, images of squalor and thoughts of self-realization. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z There’s a plusher, more dramatic arrangement, with piano and brass-like synthesizers, in the prechorus, while the bridge is orchestrated with strings: “I don’t trust nobody and nobody trusts me.” Taylor Swift Goes to a Darker Place: Discuss 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The touches were subtle: some synthesizers here and there, a guitar that occasionally recalls Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler. Summertime, and the living is uneasy for Jason Isbell 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z In 1977 she released a hit that served as a precursor to modern techno music titled “,” which made her among the first female artists to use synthesizers in a recording. Legendary ?Queen of Disco? Donna Summer Dies at 63 2012-05-17T17:34:52Z But the arrangements, strong as they were, were undercut by a synthesizer that made a cheesy substitute for strings. Review: Steve Tyrell Keeps a Comfortable Pop-Swing Style in Honoring Sinatra 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The pianist Mr. O’Farrill is an irrepressible synthesizer and a conceptual long-distance runner. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z This melancholy but resolute track from “Black Panther” faces and overcomes a hero’s self-doubt, in a production that glances back toward Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” while it makes synthesizers sound like African hand drums. The Playlist: The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar Join Forces, and 15 More New Songs 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z In the early 1980s, experiments with synthesizers and electronic drums carried Summer to new success. Pop mourns Donna Summer 2012-05-18T01:02:00Z But she noted that while “synthesizers can seem inaccessible and complicated,” they are also “very tactile” instruments. Music: Female Artists With a Penchant for Synth Sounds 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z The music, by Matthew Otto, was little more than cushiony synthesizer chords with an occasional beat for emphasis — effectively a blank canvas for Mr. Welsh to scrawl onto. Music Review: The Julie Ruin, Body/Head and Majical Cloudz Play Northside 2013-06-14T21:48:15Z Kelly Savage’s synthesizer produced a credible digital harpsichord sound; a vibraphone-marimba patch Ms. Savage adopted for Ms. Palmer’s arias heightened their burlesque character. Music Review: ?The Judgment of Paris? by Morningside Opera - Review 2011-09-01T22:41:50Z Brooklyn outfit Bear in Heaven has straddled spacey psychedelic rock and somber electronic pop over the course of four albums, complicating straightforward indie rock with samples and synthesizers. Your week in Seattle music: Boston, Coheed and Cambria and more 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z His trademark was his fluency with synthesizers, and he was an early adopter of the Minimoog. Kashif, R&B Singer, Writer and Producer, Dies at 59 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z To achieve that, the band are surrounded by technology - banks of synthesizers, harmonisers, sample pads and laptops adorn the stage. The Naked and Famous: Making waves 2013-09-20T06:39:28Z Just as vinyl LPs are back in vogue, analog synthesizers are having a resurgence. Music Review: ‘Source of Uncertainty,’ Featuring Morton Subotnick, at Schimmel Center 2012-07-08T21:29:42Z In the ’90s the band weathered the rise of grunge — which rendered synthesizers and drum machines temporarily taboo — as well as the departure of the keyboardist Alan Wilder and Gahan’s struggle with heroin addiction. The Exquisite Darkness of Depeche Mode 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Instead, their mechanical precision reinforces the vocal hooks, with synthesizers filling in the cracks. Haim, 'Days are Gone' review 2013-10-03T15:40:00Z Crystal Castles reached back to the punk-tinged synthesizer riffs and out-of-tune vocals of the 1990s rave era, though it also had more current, consonant tracks. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z "Cigar Galaxy" is synthesizer overload, for sure, but the kid's melodies and drums keep me interested because there's just so much texture going on: buzzing, dripping, echoing, clacking, thumping. Download this: Keyboard Kid's "Adventures from the Cigar Galaxy" mixtape 2010-12-21T19:13:06Z His new songs relied on brutally stark synthesizer riffs and drumbeats, closer to industrial dance music than to current hip-hop, and they were delivered on Sunday through a sound system with bone-rattling bass. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z He liked to layer his synthesizers, locking them together in contrasting cycles, creating a sense of surging movement. The Case for New Age Music as American Folk Art 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Musically, the sound is lush and seductive, with swirling synthesizers, edgy swipes of guitar and the ominous, repetitive beat of a drum machine. Golden Gardens’ ethereal tunes come Thursday to High Dive 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Gibbard asks in the chorus of “Black Sun,” against warbling synthesizer chords. Review: Death Cab for Cutie’s ‘Kintsugi’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z The roomy Interbay coffeehouse, with lovely acoustics and comfortable couches, buzzed with excitement as several acts delivered a vibrant showcase ranging from ambient synthesizer washes to jagged improvisations. Review: Impressive acts at launch of Seattle jazz label Table & Chairs 2011-03-14T23:57:03Z He later pivoted from brittle acoustic abstraction to warped folk exotica to modular synthesizer exploration. Chuck Johnson’s Ode to What’s Been Lost in California’s Fires 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “Ritual” expands the sonic palette a bit, with more synthesizers and drum programming — we’re edging into Tears for Fears territory now — but its dimensions are basically the same. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z As seen here, Mr. Ferrer’s work bespeaks an artist working from a complex, imperfect, driven self — a self that is a cultural sponge, an opportunistic sieve and a tightly wound synthesizer all in one. Art Review: Rafael Ferrer at El Museo del Barrio 2010-06-10T21:56:00Z The album finds Greene shrinking into womb-like grooves, buried underneath synthesizers and strings, mumbling and singing as if in a trance. New CDs: Washed Out's chillwave sound 2011-10-03T21:26:03Z The demo Chris and I created on our synthesizer was our rehearsal for the recording session. ‘Being Boring’: the Path to a Pop Elegy 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Unfortunately it wasn't the reputation boost he was looking for: A young, cocky Haim meanders painfully through his interview, interspersed with cringe-inducing shots of him lounging in his pool and jamming on the synthesizer. Video roundup: Corey Haim's charmed, tortured life 2010-03-10T15:11:00Z I’ve worked with him a lot when he’s been just even fooling around on synthesizers. Playing by Johnny Marr’s rules: “I love living in the modern world, but I just don’t accept a laptop as being a band member” 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The visionary composer and producer builds a “new instrument” out of percussion, strings and synthesizer, and then plays it. The best classical concerts of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z They take existing images and noises and distort them with synthesizers and glitch boxes. Review | In the galleries: Pulsating dramas of light and sound 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z On this B side, a simple cymbal-and-snare pattern sets things up for Sun Ra’s space-age explorations on a Moog synthesizer, accompanied by more earthbound, tuneful horns — funky minimalism at its finest. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Occasionally, the shifting stew of clanging synthesizers, yearning cello and swirling guitar reverb swallows the words. Sharon Van Etten's expansive vocal talent sings from the darkness 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z It’s also an entirely different production of the song — farewell to new wave guitars and synthesizers, hello to keyboard arpeggios and a new, more introspective transparency, at least at first. The Playlist: Bob Dylan’s New Song and Merle Haggard’s Final Recording 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly ... A Minute With: Composer Alexandre Desplat on the art of scoring film 2014-02-05T13:26:27Z A children’s music artist and the inventor of the Dermatron, a synthesizer activated by the heat of skin, Haack released “The Electric Lucifer” on Columbia Records in 1970 and a follow-up eight years later. Review: ‘Electric Lucifer,’ or the Passion of the Bleep Bloop Beep 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Monroe brought “Cynthia,” her synthesizer, to work up the melodies. Pistol Annies craft holiday album for the not-so-sentimental 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Then a frazzled, convulsing wannabe-guitar synthesizer riff enters and it's all over. Music Monday: Joker, Guilty Simpson, Lil B feat. Elliott Smith 2010-04-12T19:43:00Z But the bass lines and beats sound great, and the passing textures — robotic percussion, synthesizer drones, sampled sounds — feel right, and carefully determined. Playlist: Music From Freddie Gibbs, Matthew Dear and Owen Howard 2010-08-13T17:51:00Z It’s a gorgeous, lofty waltz, with synthesizers billowing around acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies, as Wasner sings an enigmatic reverie about “losing the old for the new, like so much desire.” Beyoncé’s Surprise Juneteenth Anthem, and 12 More New Songs 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Crates of equipment in tow, they snake cables across the floor, joining laptops, projectors, video-game consoles, synthesizers and other devices into a throbbing, multimedia web. At Issue Project Room, Techie Musicians Jam Away 2010-08-12T20:46:00Z A more muted song, “I Hope You Die,” unfolds in a fog of synthesizers; Ms. Wasner sings the title phrase as if bestowing a mercy, not a curse. The Week Ahead: Aug. 29 ? Sept. 4 2010-08-26T15:25:00Z The album opens with its title track, a would-be anthem involving a simple guitar riff, an analog synthesizer line and a series of generalizations. New Music: Albums From Pink, Dwight Yoakam and Aimee Mann 2012-09-17T22:14:32Z Several tracks feature the ominously low synthesizer parts Mr. Bhasker is known for. A Band Called Fun., With a Period 2012-03-10T00:25:53Z Proponents of the technology say it has the power to disrupt the music business in the ways that synthesizers, sampling, and file-sharing services did. Paul McCartney Says A.I. Helped Complete ‘Last’ Beatles Song 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Shepherd adorned this with sometimes-spare, sometimes-soaring string arrangements, which the London Symphony Orchestra plays in conversation with his aerial synthesizer lines. Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points Meet in the Atmosphere 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z A small cult rapped every word to his obscene sex brags, vibing to the synthesizer beats of his producers, Blue Sky Black Death. Block Party 2012 day one wrap: Keyboard Kid, Allen Stone, Nacho Picasso 2012-07-21T21:01:05Z Through various electronic manipulations she has made it sound like a synthesizer, or a distorted electric guitar, or simply short blasts of noise. Ukulele Crazy 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z The song might be more credible if it weren’t so ingratiating, with blinking piano chords in the verse, blurting synthesizers in the chorus and a coolly mechanized beat throughout. Playlist: A Confection of Pop, and Newport Chops 2011-08-20T19:45:06Z The music was built from loops, many with old analog synthesizer sounds: deep throbs, bell-toned pings with their pitches bending, drones, chirps, static, and speedy burbles, all welling up and circling the space. Music Review: The Trippy ?60s in a Guggenheim Time Machine 2010-03-06T08:06:00Z But in the late 1970s, he joined the Moog Company as marketing director and consulted on new synthesizer designs. Herbert Deutsch, Co-Creator of the Moog Synthesizer, Dies at 90 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Despite those concerns and some melancholy lyrics, the tone of “Regresa,” with its synthesizers and reverbs with retro touches, is calming and warm, like a sunset on the beach. Buscabulla offers electro-Caribbean music for the pandemic 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z There it played music from “Chariots of Fire” with Rowan Atkinson, in the guise of his Mr. Bean character, goofing around on the synthesizer. Simon Rattle to Return to His Roots, Taking Over the London Symphony 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z For the most part it features Mr. Miles, a keyboardist, and Ms. Jensen, a trumpeter, playing new music that evokes Davis’s style in the early 1980s, when Mr. Miles was doing his synthesizer programming. Jazz Listings for July 10-16 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z That sense of discovery imbues the album, as Spalding tumbles forward, often on electric bass, navigating the unexpected twists and turns of her arrangements for horns, synthesizers and, on one song, an African lute. Esperanza Spalding plays Paramount Theatre Tuesday 2012-04-23T21:42:04Z Harrison was also responsible for introducing the recently invented Moog synthesizer to the tonal palette of “Abbey Road.” When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z But even as the city developed its reputation for cutting-edge nightlife, Shpudeiko started looking back: to medieval and early Renaissance music, whose strict, almost mathematical cadences reverberated with his own modular synthesizers. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The second half is a friendlier, more familiar Sabzi, one we recognize from previous Blue Scholars songs: sappy major chord progression, ecstatic pitch-tweaked synthesizer melody. Download this: "John DeLorean" by Seattle's Blue Scholars 2011-04-20T17:34:06Z In “Year of Sky,” blipping synthesizers evolve into Philip Glass-style organ arpeggios as Hval — in her highest, most childlike register — strives to perceive both the minute insect realm and the expanding universe. Jenny Hval Makes Ideas Sing 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z He started out as a synthesizer player who just happened to have a knack for being a genius composer. Playing by Johnny Marr’s rules: “I love living in the modern world, but I just don’t accept a laptop as being a band member” 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The subterranean hum of a synthesizer and a slow, menacing clip-clop rhythm announce the return of this Scottish quartet. Album review: Sons and Daughters, 'Mirror Mirror' 2011-07-11T04:18:00Z Indeed, he saw the synthesizer as a kind of liberation from the physical limitations of living performers. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z Bangalter: We made Discovery in 2.5 years, with a lot of different drum machines and synthesizers and this idea of an unlimited amount of time to experiment. Robocall: A Conversation with Daft Punk
2013-05-21T19:21:36Z Greg Fox, the drummer for Liturgy and other strenuous projects, drummed as various synthesizer players joined him onstage, generating noises and drones. At Moogfest, a Demonstration of What Human and Machine Can Accomplish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Hear how every note of her organ and synthesizer harmonically supports every person’s earnest plea for a personal bond with the divine? 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The teenage Muldrow delved into electronic music, building beats and devising abstract sounds on drum machines, synthesizers and computers. Georgia Anne Muldrow Builds a Musical World of Her Own 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Challenging English bands like Ultravox, Cabaret Voltaire and the Human League began building their sound around synthesizers. Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle 2012-05-23T10:54:12Z “There’s so much clarity in his playing,” said the guitarist Bill Frisell, who appears on “The Declaration of Musical Independence” alongside Richard Teitelbaum on synthesizers and piano and Ben Street on bass. Andrew Cyrille’s Late-Career Renaissance 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z For lots of musicians, though, synthesizers are so last decade. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z The guitar sounded like synthesizer, the keyboard like a guitar, drums sparingly hit with mallets by Daniel Franz abetted by tinny backing drum machines. Concert review: Beach House at Showbox 2012-10-05T16:31:07Z The album's other tracks hew closely to the signature LCD sound: analog synthesizers, processed guitars, expertly programed beats and layers of live drums and percussion. LCD Soundsystem raises glass to "Drunk Girls" 2010-04-24T15:29:00Z In “Alibi,” surrounded by synthesizer chords and twitchy programmed percussion, she realizes, “Something so warm turned out to be/Something that I should’ve known would be the death.” Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Hancock appears only on a small television screen, playing his synthesizer. Two Turntables and a Keytar: The Night Herbie Hancock Rocked the Grammys 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z People who have computers and work at synthesizers have that in front of them all the time. ArtsBeat Blog: John Williams Lets His Muses Carry Him Along 2011-08-19T11:00:56Z It's easy not to think about Spears at all while listening to "How I Roll," anonymous as her voice is, just another note-producing mechanism in a larger machine mostly made of computers and synthesizers. Britney Spears at Tacoma Dome 6/29 -- and have you heard "How I Roll"? 2011-04-07T23:33:07Z As Time magazine reported, the music industry was floundering among “the ruins of punk and the chic regions of synthesizer pop”; it needed a messiah. Riff: ‘Thriller’ and the Lessons of the Mega-Super-Album 2012-09-02T03:22:06Z Floating on synthesizers and organ chords, she sings, “Hold you up/No fear/We are free.” Bonzie Longs for a Post-Pandemic ‘Reincarnation’ 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z On the instrumental track “Bells Burp,” the album’s opener, a chorus of mellifluous default Ableton bells explode into propulsive waves of synthesizers. A Glimpse of Alternative Russia Through the Music of Kate NV 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Wye Oak recently released “Tween,” a collection of songs made between its third and fourth albums: in reductive terms, a document of transition from guitars to synthesizers. The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z The band consists of two female singers, a guitar/synthesizer player and a drummer. January's best new music from across the MAP 2011-01-15T12:41:00Z He performs a solo recital on soprano saxophone as part of the Interpretations series; sharing the bill is the duo of Earl Howard, on synthesizers and electronics, and J. D. Parran on flutes. Jazz Listings for Sept. 19-25 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z “Versace on the Floor” is dreamy New Edition homage, with cool synthesizers forming a cradle for Mr. Mars, who begins the song singing tenderly, à la Ralph Tresvant, “Underneath the chandelier/We’re dancing all alone.” Review: Bruno Mars Delivers Decades of Funk in ‘24K Magic’ 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Moments later, in the synthesizer slurry of “Control,” she’s back to serenading herself in the second person. Review | On ‘Jacqueline,’ Haley Fohr sends her alter ego on a road trip 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Droning synthesizer arpeggios added a certain slo-mo build, and for at least one person who'd never listened to !!! before or seen the band live — me — everything clicked. Capitol Hill Block Party 2010 day two notables: !!! and THEESatisfaction 2010-07-25T20:33:00Z In the 1990s, he turned to designing software synthesizers — programs creating sound directly from a computer. Dave Smith, Whose Synthesizers Shaped Electronic Music, Dies at 72 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z The original version of this post indicated that Richards was playing a Moog synthesizer. Watch Keith Richards try to play a synthesizer in 1969 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z As the cop car pulled out, one of the police officers handed Woz back his electronic synthesizer. From “phreaks” to Apple: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s “eureka!” moment 2013-02-16T14:00:00Z “Subtext Is Deadly” featured an arrangement of blocky beats and chilly synthesizers, with Cale Parks, the band’s stand-up percussionist, singing terse lines about reluctant realizations. Music Review: Delorean?s Synthy, Dancey Club Sound at Mercury Lounge 2010-03-30T21:03:00Z Dressed in a long black dress and a golden cape, standing before a hammered dulcimer, she was an emanation from earlier times, even though she was flanked by synthesizers. Music Review: Dead Can Dance at Beacon Theater 2012-08-30T21:48:08Z Muffled drums and whisper-suction left/right noises captivate first, then a squishy synthesizer melody introduces a bit of funk. Friday Favorites: Lace Cadence, Chocolate Chuck, Kanye West 2010-10-01T19:17:00Z The material captures Mr. Cowley’s affinity for synthesizers’ potential not to replicate sounds but to forge new ones. Waking the Spirit of a Disco Innovator 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Analog gear also holds a powerful appeal for Mr. Russom, who taught himself how to build modular synthesizers. Pop: Disco Revival in New York With Crystal Ark and Escort 2012-11-18T02:23:03Z But by then, Mr. Deutsch had moved on from his days helping design synthesizers. Herbert Deutsch, Co-Creator of the Moog Synthesizer, Dies at 90 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The early synthesizer pieces have become classics, but Mr. Babbitt quickly moved forward, writing works in which electronic soundtracks accompanied live performers. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z Danalogue uses 1980s synthesizers for plump bass tones and upward swoops; Betamax mixes drums and drum machines, constantly accenting different offbeats. Red Hot Chili Peppers Honor Eddie Van Halen, and 10 More New Songs 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Halfway through, some little synthesizer motifs arrive, enough of them to have constructed an electro track of their own. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z And a beat kicks in with trap drums and blipping synthesizers behind Killer Mike, who boasts in quick triplets: “I’m never chillin’, I gotta make millions.” Meshell Ndegeocello’s Magnificent Mix, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z This piece opens with a bang, 144 of them to be exact: endless iterations of a pummeling chord in the orchestra, which this score weights heavily with brass, winds, percussion and synthesizers. Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Survey the month’s sprawl and you might be tempted to find an aesthetic through-line, which of course comes down to Mr. Corea himself, instantly recognizable, whether on acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes piano or Moog synthesizer. Critic?s Notebook: Chick Corea, Jazz Chameleon, in All His Colors 2011-10-31T22:28:02Z “Virgo’s Groove” features layers of undulating percussion, synthesizer and bass that updates the production work Quincy Jones did with Michael Jackson — a sort of companion piece to Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.” Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Embodies Decades of Dance Music. Here’s a Guide. 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z While usually accompanied by ukulele, Weish finds the embrace of warm textures courtesy of Din, with synthesizers and beat arrangements assembling base emotions into the soul of a machine. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z Over a brusque, irregular beat and blaring, hornlike synthesizers, it exults in an impending catastrophe of global warming, as she sings, “I want to see this world, I want to see it boil.” Anohni: Embracing a New Name, and Sound 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z For the uninitiated, that means analog synthesizers, instrumental hip-hop and electro beats. New local music by Truckasauras, Nacho Picasso and more 2012-06-01T02:31:17Z The unconventional group layers traditional rock instrumentation with trumpet, synthesizers and more. New Cake disc is dry and crumbly ? the way fans like it 2011-01-10T21:37:07Z As the 21st century began, there was a surge of interest in modular analog synthesizers — a backlash against predictable, sterile digital sounds. Don Buchla, Inventor, Composer and Electronic Music Maverick, Dies at 79 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Programmed beats, tinkly bell tones, synthesizer swoops, swirling arpeggios, whistling, crunching, his own multiplied voice, whooshing gusts of white noise. Music Review: Oorutaichi Performs at Japan Society 2012-11-18T22:25:21Z During these little commercial breaks, a Swan brother would play a synthesizer or percussion note synchronized with the take-off and landing of the skateboarder. Truckasauras rocks hard, salutes the '90s at Barboza 2012-06-29T18:19:13Z “Loose Change” backs him with an implied beat — no drums, lots of space — sketched by syncopated chords from a string ensemble, skulking synthesizer tones and his own imploring voice. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z “Patrick would record a band and add so many synthesizer tracks that, by the end of the day, he’d remove the band,” Mr. Tani said in an interview. Waking the Spirit of a Disco Innovator 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Then, as a musical project he called Invisible System, he started tinkering — extensively and transformatively — with what he collected, playing guitar, bass and synthesizers and adding collaborators. Playlist: From Soft, Feathery Vocals to Locomotive Sax 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z Washed Out's "Within and Without" is another step in the diversification of Seattle's grunge-famous label Sub Pop — currently expanding from guitar rock into music defined more by synthesizers, digital samplers and drum machines. New CDs: Washed Out's chillwave sound 2011-10-03T21:26:03Z He is coming off the release last month of “Ancestral Recall,” an impressive album on which West African-derived rhythms and whispery synthesizers fortify his bristling trumpet playing and the strident, subversive poetry of Saul Williams. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z But though he did not write Popcorn for three more decades, the Moog synthesizer pioneer said the artistic legacy of his native country was one of the keys to understanding his music. Pop pioneer hails Germany despite Holocaust misery 2010-04-19T15:05:00Z Churning, overloaded post-punk guitars open the new album in “Back to the Radio,” but other songs are built around keyboards, from shallow synthesizers to stately Hammond organ. A Band ‘About Being Messy and Chaotic’? Porridge Radio Finds Its Moment. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The track “I Know” features synthesizers performed by Donald Swearingen; those keyboard motifs suggest an affinity for both 1980s new wave as well as some 1970s Philip Glass. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z But even with amplification, the voices did not always emerge from the thick orchestration, with its synthesizer, two pianos, four saxophones and brasses aplenty. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z At the end, the audience called for an encore and got the marathon "Bay of Pigs," which went from seething synthesizer music into a cracking dance beat over 10 minutes. Concert review: Destroyer creates new sounds at Showbox 2012-06-04T21:34:19Z Mr. Rahman sings a few lines in a few tracks and is otherwise most noticeable when playing some goopy synthesizer passages. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z In a nod to Bruckner, he began with his arrangement of the composer’s “Ave Maria” choral motet, utilizing Vocaloid, a synthesizer choir. Review: After a Concert, a Nightcap to Demystify New Music 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z At surface level, it was a special-effects demonstration, a bonanza of texture and timbre: quavery drones, like an oscillating synthesizer; delicate ghost tones, hovering in flute range; sharp, plosive rivets of percussive airflow. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z “Redbone” and “Terrified,” two falsetto ballads laced with paranoia and fear, stay poised between plush vocal-group soul and synthesizer subversion. Childish Gambino’s ‘Awaken, My Love!’ Sounds Like the 1970s 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The moments when bass was absent — when drum machines chattered, synthesizers tootled or voices offered hooks — were brief voids soon to be filled. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z A shimmering “Sunday Farewell” for five synthesizers plays as the listeners depart. An Operatic Conundrum Untangled 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z The producer Loraine James constructed a perpetually disorienting mix of jolting electronic glitches, soothing piano and furtive snippets of percussion and synthesizer. Billie Eilish’s Forlorn ‘Barbie’ Ballad, and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z It spotlights six-beat drumming, intertwined guitars, synthesizer and accordion obbligatos, call-and-response vocals, singing and rapping, cheerfully claiming a whole continuum of ideas. 7 Songs We Nearly Missed in 2022 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Soulful horn sections abounded in a music too long dominated by electric guitars and synthesizers. Sasquatch! Fest a heady brew of old and new 2011-05-31T01:08:05Z It has hints of synthesizer and drum machine, with notes of floating ukelele. tUnE-yArDs: Without an open Internet I couldn’t have become a musician 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z The album was full of unorthodox songs made from synthesizers and mbiras and God knows what else that somehow coalesced into side A and side B while transcending genre, time and space. Best pop music 2011: Seattle and beyond 2011-12-24T14:01:08Z The packed room reflected the stage setup, where Shepherd surrounded himself with analog synthesizers of every vintage as well as an 11-piece band that included a drummer, a string quartet and full brass section. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z He had a demonic sense of humor on "Windowlicker," played tender Satie-indebted piano pieces and threshed elements of jungle, techno, ambient and just about everything else made on synthesizers. Aphex Twin's 'Syro' lines up the faithful at Complex in Glendale 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Cowbells clatter atop synthesizer pulses, though Afrobeat horns arrive near the end; most of the English lyrics are the title, though Ms. Williams sings more — untranslated here — in the Ibibio language. The Playlist: BigBang Prepares for a Split and 2 Chainz Steals the Spotlight 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Yet there is a gap for him in the experience, which becomes clear when he overhears people at the museum excitedly crowding around the synthesizer used by Pink Floyd on “Wish You Were Here.” Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z The synthesizers are operating at full throb, what sounds like a meandering flute wanders in and out, and there are no discernible drums. R&B That Sweats, Emotionally and Physically 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Over time, he’s cheesed things up on record with keyboards, synthesizers and other gratuitous glop. Concert review: Leonard Cohen at Akoo Theatre 2012-11-24T07:58:00Z Their thundering tribal drums and antique synthesizers scream Stonehenge, of course, but the sensory experience far outweighs any reservations. This week's new live music 2011-01-01T00:05:40Z To accompany his melodramatic apocalypse fantasy, Mr. Whitacre concocted an eclectic mix of whooshing synthesizers and thumping techno beats, accented by two taiko drummers and rich, melancholy contributions from a splendid cellist, Fang Fang Xu. Music Review: Eric Whitacre and His ?Paradise Lost? at Carnegie 2010-06-16T20:23:00Z Its debut marked the dawn of the synthesizer age. Herbert Deutsch, Co-Creator of the Moog Synthesizer, Dies at 90 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The sheer joy of a well-made pop single overwhelms cynicism about formulas, formats and marketing, as synthesizers bubble and tingle through a track that clocks in at a formula-perfect 3:30. The 54 Best Songs of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z On the East Coast, Mr. Moog built synthesizers that could be played from a keyboard, a configuration that working musicians found familiar and practical. Don Buchla, Inventor, Composer and Electronic Music Maverick, Dies at 79 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Machover’s “Valis,” commissioned for the 10th anniversary of the Pompidou Center, used speech and song and synthesizer to dramatize the hero’s own fragmented view of the world. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z Scofield and Medeski, now on synthesizer, held a dialogue, sometimes an overlap, of the darkest, strangest, most abrasive sounds and figures their instruments could conjure. Hudson’s jammy tendencies come to the forefront 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Bruce Weinberg, an economist at Ohio State, found that economists who won the Nobel Prize later in life were creative synthesizers of information they accumulated in one area over a long time. Creativity may be key to healthy aging. Here are ways to stay inspired. 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Q. The timing is interesting too as far as the development of your arsenal, with all these guitars and synthesizers as well as the Orchestrion. A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn: A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn 2013-05-19T21:41:39Z The most adventurous song on the album is the best one, "Unobstructed Views," a one-chord jam surging with synthesizers and faraway timpani hits. New Death Cab for Cutie CD its finest yet 2011-05-27T23:06:33Z The Rutt/Etra was one of the first synthesizers to allow an artist to play with a video signal in real time. Bill Etra, a Video Animation Pioneer, Dies at 69 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z It's an elegiac movement recorded by a symphony orchestra that features desolate violins swelling around a barely there synthesizer pulse. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z Without 50 Cent on "Like a Dog," Jake One's piano loop sounds more wilted, and a barely-there synthesizer counterpoint is newly noticeable. Get in the van: Jake One "Enstrumentals" 2011-03-09T18:45:06Z Instead of the “strummy-strum” his fans may expect, “The Age of Adz” is built around synthesizers, in particular the Prophet ’08. Mr. Strummy-Strum Tries a Synth Sound 2010-10-15T21:14:00Z The Bengsons use synthesizers and keyboards to layer sounds and rhythms that keep repeating, which extend to an epilogue that’s as infectious as a kindergarten ditty, a list song about things that grow. ‘The Keep Going Song’ Review: The Music of Faith Under Quarantine 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Singing close harmony in what could almost be a nursery-rhyme melody, they add percussion and synthesizer bass lines over what sounds like marching feet. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z One synthesizer mimicked, distorted and chased instrumental lines played by flute, clarinet and violin soloists; another provided digital samples; and a mixing board in the audience swirled sounds around the hall through loudspeakers. Music Review: International Contempory Ensemble at Rose Theater 2012-08-06T22:19:56Z Those extra elements thicken the sound, which the music seems to demand — especially when using his guitar synthesizer, which he reserves for his most red-blooded soloing, and which gets really loud. Music Review: Pat Metheny and His Quartet at Town Hall 2012-10-14T22:01:15Z All the other music you hear on TV is a synthesizer because that's all you need. “The Simpsons” writer Mike Reiss: “The Trump years have been a shot in the arm for the show” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Where that album offered a note-for-note recreation of Bach’s music on a Moog synthesizer, Mr. Tomita was determined to use the instrument to augment classical pieces far beyond the composer’s original intent. Isao Tomita, Widely Considered the Father of Japanese Electronic Music, Dies at 84 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z During all this, there are synthesizer fanfares befitting a vintage video game, along with some drums and low bleats for drive and the occasional unsettling addition of high-pitched noises. Review: Dispassionate Traumas and Choral Dream Songs 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Dave Smith, a groundbreaking synthesizer designer, died on May 31 in Detroit. Dave Smith, Whose Synthesizers Shaped Electronic Music, Dies at 72 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z A big blast of horns over loudspeakers at the start of Adams' score for synthesizer and pre-recorded brass indicates he had been listening to Sibelius as much as to Steve Reich. After 32 years, 'Available Light' brighter than ever 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z It’s carried by a cunningly syncopated track that uses acoustic guitar and a synthesizer blip alongside Afrobeats drum programming. Britney Spears and Elton John’s Mash-up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Morphing through nearly nine minutes, the track struts on Ndegeocello’s synthesizer bass lines; twinkles and hovers with Brandee Younger’s harp; and sprints toward the end with double time drumming, headed somewhere new. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z A sound system played a synthesizer arrangement of Mr. Nikodijevic’s gloomy orchestral music, with long, spare chords and dramatic bass. The Coronavirus Derails Marina Abramovic’s Maria Callas Opera 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z He pioneered recording on tape, devised the first eight-track tape-recording system, designed one of the first synthesizers and invented the Gibson Les Paul guitar — and made it sing like a hipster chorus. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Desolate saxophone notes weaving through a perseverating synthesizer and rapidly tapping, tapping, tapping drum machine. “Gemini” is a brilliant, modern take on the murder mystery 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z To anyone who follows music, the name Moog, of course, is synonymous with vintage rock bands such as Yes, Tangerine Dream and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, which embraced Robert Moog's early synthesizers. Switched-on guitar: Fareed Haque meets the Moog 2011-01-24T14:43:52Z Gypsy fiddle replaced synthesizer, and party-hearty spirit took over, as Eugene Hutz and other members of Gogol Bordello romped through “Breaking Glass.” Review: Remembering David Bowie, With One Artist and One Song at a Time 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Soon after, some local producers attempted to replicate the suave and heavily orchestrated sounds of disco with drum machines and synthesizers. Honey Dijon Steps Up From Dance Music’s Underground 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z At the American Festival of Microtonal Music, held annually in New York, you could do even better: one festival concert in May offered performances on a synthesizer tuned to a 53-note octave. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z According to Badalamenti, it began as a sample on a synthesizer, pitched lower and doubled with another guitar sound. The ‘Twin Peaks’ Theme Isn’t Just a Song. It’s a Portal. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z It also came not long before the era of the synthesizer dawned in the 1980s, when organic sounds of a wind instrument were largely abandoned, at least in terms of what surfaced on pop radio. R.I.P. Raphael Ravenscroft: More sax that made music pop 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z His band uses electronics to toss in the odd percussive loop or synthesizer swoop; his guitar playing is laconic but pointed; and his lyrics mingle existential fears with his blandishments. CMJ 2014: Son Little and Sons of an Illustrious Father Offer Roots Variations 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z A newly posted video captures the restless spark of their improvisation, featuring Mr. Allen’s far-out bleeps and tones on EWI, a windblown synthesizer. The Playlist: David Bowie’s Unreleased Songs and a ‘Putin’ Satire 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z He was president of Seer Systems, which in 1997 introduced the first professional software synthesizer, the Windows program Reality. Dave Smith, Whose Synthesizers Shaped Electronic Music, Dies at 72 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z He reads something to us but his voice is distorted by synthesizers and I can't understand him. The Last Concert: Indie Icons LCD Soundsystem Bid a Brilliant, Bizarre Adieu 2011-04-04T10:15:00Z On it he plays balafon, synthesizer and drums — often at the same time, as on “My Birds,” offered in collegial tribute to his former band mates. Jerome Cooper, a Multitextured Jazz Percussionist, Dies at 68 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z A very simple kit: a few drum machines, a few analog synthesizers, a small mixer, a small reverb unit, a compressor. Robocall: A Conversation with Daft Punk
2013-05-21T19:21:36Z The theme couples that figure with a wash of dreamy synthesizers. The ‘Twin Peaks’ Theme Isn’t Just a Song. It’s a Portal. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z On “Manners,” its debut full-length album, released in 2010, synthesizers shimmered and pealed with lustrous timbres, while dance beats pulsed with tireless programmed jubilation behind Michael Angelakos’s falsetto voice. New Music: New Music by Passion Pit and Micachu & the Shapes 2012-07-23T22:18:24Z She and RocketNumberNine had recast the song, trading its original scratching hip-hop production for Minimalistic arpeggios and a sustained synthesizer undertow. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Stevens recorded the album largely alone over the past two years with his computer, drum machines and synthesizers; he’s his own producer and engineer. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The group’s pulsating synthesizers and looming guitars carry new-wave urgency into the 21st century. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z At this show, on “Klavierwerke,” he played heavy thudding chords on his synthesizer that acted as the bass line, by far the night’s most danceable moment. Music Review: Beat After Beat, by the Book 2011-03-15T22:18:13Z He bought his first real synthesizer — a 1970s-vintage Oberheim that supplies many of the swooping sounds in “On Hold” — after using for so long cheap keyboards, samplers and software sounds. The xx Lets the Sunshine In 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z He's not a synthesizer of restaurant classical French cooking. For Pepin, cooking is about technique, not stardom 2011-08-03T13:34:09Z Tapping on a synthesizer, he sings about the challenges of isolation as he sits on a cluttered floor, two striking squares of sunlight streaming in through the windows of a dark room. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Their first EP Espirales mixes an electronic rhythm section with different types of samples, analog and digital synthesizers, acoustic instruments, bass, electric guitar and layers of voices, generating atmospheres of trip hop and downtempo. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z It's the first time Daft Punk leaves the computer at home, using only live instruments, a modular synthesizer and vintage vocoders, the latter of which are heavily employed. Review: Daft Punk seduces machines into singing 2013-05-20T14:10:10Z By turns, she was a nightclub diva, an avant-gardist, a historical preservationist and a seamless synthesizer of then and now. The World (of Pop Music) Comes to New York 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Lasers periodically shot beams into the club, sometimes synced to wiggly synthesizer notes. Music Review: Sweating the Details for the Fun of Others 2010-08-25T22:45:00Z Robots were placing ornaments on a tree and sitting at a synthesizer ready to play the carol of your choice at the push of a button. When Department Stores Were Theater 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z In “Yikes,” a pulsing, plunging synthesizer bass line and echoing, hooting voices accompany Mr. West as he raps about drugs and fears — “sometimes I scare myself.” Kanye West Writes a Song of Himself on ‘Ye’ 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Soon additional vocals waft in, along with synthesizer lines swooping across the vocals, including one that’s like some cackling jungle bird. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z A very 1980s track — springy synthesizer bass line and hook, programmed beat — carries pure, focused resentment about how much damage she’s done to “my feelings.” Post Malone and the Weeknd’s Emo Synth-Pop, and 12 More New Songs 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Its instruments, early on, were state of the art, though they are now primitive: analog synthesizers, a dinky electronic drum equivalent with only a handful of sounds. Spring Performance: Music: Kraftwerk Concerts at Museum of Modern Art in April 2012-02-24T21:12:20Z But low-grade synthesizers, not punk guitars, are her instruments, and they give her a soundworld that turns dinky tones into a personal universe, “a planet of my own,” as one song promises. 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2019 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Specifically, the concerts explored analog synthesis: music made on synthesizers built of modules that produce and modify sound waves, rather than on the computers that have largely supplanted them. Music Review: ‘Source of Uncertainty,’ Featuring Morton Subotnick, at Schimmel Center 2012-07-08T21:29:42Z The album, which hit No. 2 on the British pop charts and sold a half-million copies worldwide, consisted of classical works played on the synthesizer. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z A solo performance for vocals and synthesizers by this remarkable Japanese improviser, practiced and powerful, aggressive and almost occult. A Year of Concerts With Staying Power 2013-12-29T22:45:02Z Written by Gary White, a Texas artist and synthesizer proponent whom Ronstadt duets with on another song on the album, "Louise," White became best known for his later hits "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive." It's been a "Long, Long Time" for Linda Ronstadt, whose hit song transforms "The Last of Us" 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z But here it is perfectly fine to go big on synthesizers because Lauper’s songs, packed with hooks, and Stephen Oremus’s sharp arrangements and orchestrations always made terrific use of electronics. Review: A Faithful ‘Kinky Boots,’ With All Its Pizazz and Pitfalls 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Elsewhere the synthesizers serve as window dressing, providing little more than a background hum. New Music: New Albums From Bad Plus and the Dave King Trio 2012-09-24T21:53:19Z Actually it is a bit nerdy.They set up all their synthesizers in this booth, and it's a kind of cross between a shop and a jam session. The best rock gigs for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:00Z Then she moved decisively into the pop mainstream, trading banjo for synthesizers. Taylor Swift Illuminates ‘Folklore’ in a Stripped-Down Studio Concert 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z The music is full of dark electronic textures, harsh drones and enveloping synthesizer tones, a sonic pallette at least partially influenced by her past, playing in metal bands. Jenny Hval’s lyrics will grab your attention at Kremwerk 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z In another context, it might be an electric guitar or a really tricked-out synthesizer. Banda black market suspected as Calif tubas vanish 2012-03-08T20:24:08Z Starting in the late 1960s, Moroder was one of the first musicians to use synthesizers to create dance beats and melodies, spawning a genre that packed nightclubs. Giorgio Moroder records with Britney 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z This selective tour of Ms. Krog’s recording career persuasively presents her as a fearless innovator, someone drawn early on to collagelike studio experiments and outré work with synthesizers. Review: Karin Krog, a Norwegian Star, Plays at Joe’s Pub 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The production, at the Kitchen, begins with a sweet curiosity, a video of Haack visiting “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and demonstrating a synthesizer. Review: ‘Electric Lucifer,’ or the Passion of the Bleep Bloop Beep 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z "Plus, there's the synthesizer music, which is pretty fantastic." Moment of Friday: Watch DC Comics legends draw with Moebius 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z And I’m going to tell all my friends how much hearing an actual banjo as opposed to a synthesizer moved me.” The Year in Pop: Viral Stardom and Martial Dance Music 2012-12-28T17:07:10Z At the Columbia City Theater a while back, I saw Notes hold down a solo set with a sampler, synthesizer and microphone. Seattle's Soulectro presents OC Notes at Capitol Club 10/13/10; and: long-form listening 2010-10-11T19:00:00Z The electric guitar and synthesizer, which inevitably evoke the 1980s, are thankfully still gone. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Capable of generating a big and texturally rich sound without the need for band mates or compromise, synthesizers enable them to make solo trips into the unknown. Music: Female Artists With a Penchant for Synth Sounds 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z Instead of overloading the track with detonative bass and synthesizer filigree, Diplo seems to understand that a country song is a story — and he lets Cam tell it. Perspective | Did Cam and Diplo make the century’s first great EDM-country song? 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Despite this, it teems with arguments in favor of James’ influential status while celebrating the warm, malleable tones of analog and electronic synthesizers. Aphex Twin's 'Syro': A labyrinthine EDM gem 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Kurstin’s home studio, full of vintage synthesizers, drum machines and other analog gizmos, generated most of the album. Straddling the Border, Eccentrically 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z In a digitally modified voice that sounded like Darth Vader, Anderson referenced the presidential race as somber synthesizer music played in the background. Laurie Anderson and Todd Haynes are honored at Hammer Museum gala, where the talk turns political 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Krause is a polymathic musician who performed with the folk group the Weavers and helped introduce the Moog synthesizer to pop music — including songs by the Doors and Van Morrison — and film scores. Listen to ‘The Great Animal Orchestra’ 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z A standout track called “Baptism” mines a similar theme, but with Ms. Glass shouting or screaming her lines over a strobing synthesizer. Critics? Choice: CDs by Karen Elson, Crystal Castles, Keith Jarrett 2010-05-23T22:36:00Z It also offered fans of the physicist known for his electronic voice synthesizer a chance to buy some of his possessions. Stephen Hawking's thesis and wheelchair sell for $1 million 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z At center stage two large computer monitors showed keyboards and synthesizer modules, digital representations of analog technology. Music Review: Tangerine Dream at Best Buy Theater 2012-07-09T22:24:33Z The album’s continuous flow of shimmering synthesizer swirls and electronic wails that envelop and seemingly expand in all directions reveal Strom’s innate world-building skills. Pauline Anna Strom’s posthumous album cements her legacy as an electronic music visionary 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z In addition to the composer herself on piano, her septet includes Angelica Sanchez on a Moog synthesizer, the violist Mat Maneri and the trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum — all of whom possess distinctive profiles as interpreters. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Kaytranada’s production is full of shadows, with deep, skulking synthesizer bass and keyboards wafting in behind the beat, while the airy tickle in Tinashe’s voice makes clear that she’s succumbing to temptation happily. Jeff Tweedy’s Homesick Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Worrell was among the first musicians to use a Moog synthesizer, and his mastery brought comparisons to Jimi Hendrix's innovations on guitar. Bernie Worrell, masterful P-Funk keyboardist, dead at 72 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Only Luger’s “tag” — a laser-gun synthesizer noise he works into almost every mix, like a watermark, usually just before the beat drops and the rhymes kick in — gives away who made it. Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This 2011-11-04T17:42:52Z Friday headliners Animal Collective also fell flat, wasting some amazing, vaguely obscene synthesizer sounds and a cracking light show on a set with very few actual songs. Wolf gang grins, but doesn't flinch 2011-07-17T23:23:00Z For the revival, Mr. Adams has tinkered with his recorded score of dappled synthesizers and brass, supplying a more consistent pulse. Dance This Week: ‘Available Light’ and Louise Lecavalier 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Nobody in Seattle makes synthesizers cry so beautifully. Fall album roundup: The Moondoggies, Truckasauras, Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives, THEESatisfaction, Blood Hot Beat 2010-09-26T00:23:00Z Mr. West, who represented Austria at the 1990 Venice Biennale, was less a strikingly original artist who changed the course of art than an astute synthesizer and incisive adjuster. Franz West, Influential Sculptor, Dies at 65 2012-07-27T02:56:48Z Instruments and interfaces, not genres or demographics, are at the core of the festival, which is now presented and programmed by the synthesizer company Moog Music. At Moogfest, a Demonstration of What Human and Machine Can Accomplish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Newer additions include the first commercially produced Moog synthesizer and the theremin, the electronic instrument that provided the insect-like buzzing on the "The Green Hornet" show produced in Detroit in the 1940s. Silenced musical treasures languish in Mich. vault 2012-01-15T20:18:09Z The basement held vintage synthesizers and recording equipment along with an arsenal of percussion collected through decades, all at Yeasayer’s disposal for three months. 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z Every other day of the year, Kelela’s music involves synthesizers and drum machines — and somehow, the Bandwagon managed to translate that sci-fi feeling to traditional instruments without turning everything into Sunday gospel brunch. Perspective | Jason Moran is making jazz history. Don’t miss it. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z At the end of the song’s introduction, a lone synthesizer sound gradually sweeps from the left speaker to the listener’s center. The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in "Abbey Road" 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Scored for voices, strings, flute, percussion and synthesizer, it received its premiere in 1999. Elodie Lauten, Who Wove Opera From Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry, Dies at 63 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z As shelling intensified in Kyiv, the city’s tight-knit electronic music community abandoned clubs and synthesizers to shelter with families, volunteer or enlist in the armed forces. For a Kyiv Techno Collective, ‘Now Everything Is About Politics’ 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The orchestral arrangements are tinctured with dissonance; sustained synthesizer tones slide on and off pitch, feeling precarious. Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z But the accompaniment, from her longtime keyboardist and collaborator Sullivan Fortner, is on synthesizers, savoring the anachronism. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Brutally minimalist Canadian rock, welded to synthesizers and drum-machine beats, served raw. Capitol Hill Block Party 2011 preview and top 11 acts 2011-07-21T14:29:07Z When he plays his final notes of the album, at the end of Track 7, he does not so much disappear as become one with Shepherd’s web of humming synthesizers. Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points Meet in the Atmosphere 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Be it a knife or a synthesizer, the man has a way with instruments. It’s Safe to Look Back 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Hyman’s career has included work for studio orchestras in the early years of television, recording some of the first commercial experiments with synthesizers in the 1960s, and the leadership of jazz-repertory bands large and small. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Mercury Rev found a psychedelic haze in “Evening of Light”; Yeasayer brought an insistent synthesizer hook to “Janitor of Lunacy.” Critic’s Notebook: Two John Cale Programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-20T23:06:32Z They said, “We want your expertise in analog synthesizers.” ‘Being Boring’: the Path to a Pop Elegy 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The lyrics often hint at the push and pull of relationships, but they’re contemplated serenely from afar and cushioned by those synthesizers, just one more element in the pattern. New Music: The Debut of Ultraísta, and ‘Glad Rag Doll’ by Diana Krall 2012-10-01T21:36:40Z Today Ela Minus creates music in a homemade lab where she patches self-built hardware synthesizers together with samplers, drum machines and effects pedals to create interwoven beats and pulses. She Brought New Sounds to Colombia. The World’s Catching Up. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z In “Nada,” she sings about sorrow, loss and fearlessness, with a clip-clopping Andean beat and a mesh of woodwinds, voices, samples and synthesizers, at once steadfast and eerie. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Like the Broken Bells’ music, the album is rich with bubbling synthesizers, and on tracks like “Simple Song” and “No Way Down” the 1980s-style production puts the beat in bright relief. James Mercer and the Shins Return With ?Port of Morrow? 2012-03-16T16:12:29Z The song is stacked full of sounds and movement, circular electric guitars played clean, echoing percussion, shuddering synthesizer. Music Monday: Sax G, USF, Michael Dean 2011-01-17T17:48:06Z “Till the World Ends” sets the tone with its steady climb into Euro-disco ebullience, with stuttering, wordless vocals and grand washes of synthesizers. Britney Spears' 'Femme Fatale' a group effort 2011-03-25T18:23:46Z Describing the sensational success of the “Switched-On Bach” recording in 1968, Mr. Elie says that the album used the popularity of Bach to promote the synthesizer, not the other way around. Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z As a synthesizer blared and lights pulsed, the singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad twirled her arms skyward, unveiling a huge cape decorated with gold and fire red feathers, while she sang the slow-burn disco of “The Visitors.” Abba Returns to the Stage in London. Sort Of. 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z It inhabits a different sonic space from Heinali’s medieval-inspired synthesizer compositions, which he’s performed this year in a Paris mansion, a Vienna nightclub and a Ukrainian bomb shelter. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z This gender disparity probably has something to do with the enduring association of audio technology, like turntables and mixers or synthesizers and sequencers, with masculinity. Music: Female Artists With a Penchant for Synth Sounds 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z The band’s music changed as the technology changed, becoming less sonically immersive and more beat-driven as the musicians began using digital synthesizers. Edgar Froese, Leader of Tangerine Dream, Dies at 70 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The chorus pleads, “Shine a little light” knowing it could be futile — “It might not make it any better, I’m just hoping that it might” — with synthesizer tones that hint at Pink Floyd’s majestic despair. The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z As the documentary shows, in his final years the formerly garrulous pundit used a voice synthesizer. Filmmaker Steve James discusses his Roger Ebert documentary, ‘Life Itself’ By that time he had become more of a pop act, singing and often playing a hand-held synthesizer while standing center stage in concert. George Duke, Crossover Musician With Frank Zappa, Dies at 67 2013-08-07T02:22:54Z It’s all careful and symmetrical and manageable: two synthesizers and two drummers in metronomic tandem, working subtle variations on their high-hat sounds according to plan. ArtsBeat: At Coachella, Many Takes on the ?80s 2011-04-17T00:01:55Z The Detroit techno luminary Carl Craig led a group that included four fellow synthesizer artists and a concert pianist, all playing together, and just about everything they did was grandiose. An Afrofuturism Festival Brings an Energy Shift to Carnegie Hall 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z He supplemented the prison chapel’s electronic organ with two of his own Korg synthesizers. A Waltz for a Soccer Game? This Composer Sets the World Cup to Music 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z A composer, professor and pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music, who helped develop the Synclavier, an early digital synthesizer, has died. Pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music dies 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z He studied composition and ethnomusicology at Tokyo University of the Arts and began playing around with synthesizers and performing in the local pop scene. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Japanese Composer, Dies at 71 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Over McCartney’s career, he has been quick to engage with new creative technologies, whether talking about synthesizers or samplers, she said. Paul McCartney Says A.I. Helped Complete ‘Last’ Beatles Song 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z It doubled down on Minimalism by building many songs on obstinate, incessant repetition; it also daringly expanded Wire’s studio palette with effects, multitracking and synthesizers. Complete Eric B. & Rakim, a Fresh Look at Wire and a Whole Lotta Guns N’ Roses 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z He plays with these simple ingredients, but they’re quite weird put together: flutes, French horns, and synthesizers and saxophones. Fermenting Philip Glass: René Redzepi on Music and Cooking 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z After finding synthesizers unsatisfying, he bought access to something called the Vienna Symphonic Library, a collection of sampled sounds of orchestra instruments. A Digital Orchestra for Opera? Purists Take (and Play) Offense 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z “Within months of the first commercial Moog synthesizers showing up in retail stores, commercial recordings started to sound different,” Mr. Gioia said. Herbert Deutsch, Co-Creator of the Moog Synthesizer, Dies at 90 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The cavernous spaces of Depeche Mode and the shimmery tones of Erasure are both largely set aside in favor of crisply efficient beats and repeated, uninflected synthesizer riffs. New Music: New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole 2012-03-12T22:32:55Z They came to a synthesizer band to make the score but they don’t want it to be too synth. Obsessed with “Stranger Things?” Meet the musicians behind the show’s spine-chilling synth score 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z There’s the bass, there’s a snare, a kick, a hi-hat, all produced by synthesizers. Giorgio Moroder Is the Godfather of Modern Dance Music 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z His approach suggests a Christmas pageant on the dark side of the moon, but it’s pretty much a mess, with lyrics swallowed by the voice synthesizers and dancers flinging themselves pointlessly around the plastic-sheeted stage. Review: ‘Electric Lucifer,’ or the Passion of the Bleep Bloop Beep 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Zedd activates overdriven synthesizers and familiar samples to keep the party going, and Perry's unofficially takes over as Chicago's largest singles bar for the next few days. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z In his Marfa, Texas, home, Rob Mazurek keeps a synthesizer hooked up to a maze of wires, which he uses to create morning drones “to get good energy in the house.” Rob Mazurek’s Intergalactic Jazz Aims for a New Dimension 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z That hybrid of classic sounds and experimental studio-as-instrument textures – Elliot’s beloved thumb pianos disguised as steel drums, orchestral chimes and synthesizers, for example – distinguishes Wild Belle’s forthcoming album, “Isles.” Wild Belle a brother-sister combo on the rise 2012-09-11T04:53:00Z “She really got us in the Christmas mood,” said Lambert of Monroe’s synthesizer skills. Pistol Annies craft holiday album for the not-so-sentimental 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Bob: the steadying force, the moderator of mayhem, the synthesizer of sensory overload. The chaos of the Olympics has arrived. Fortunately, we have Bob Costas. 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Sweet, Ecstatic, Petulant and in Control Plenty of times on Thursday night it was unclear where Ellie Goulding’s squeal stopped and the synthesizers backing her began. Music Review: Sweet, Ecstatic, Petulant and in Control 2010-10-04T21:07:00Z Her voice, which was treated on previous albums as a close, intimate whisper, has now grown more guarded, receding into the mix so that it’s as much an electronic element as the synthesizers are. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Just Glad to Grab the Mike 2011-01-04T01:07:08Z Her solo pieces were built around a vintage synthesizer capability: the sequencer, repeating a series of notes ad infinitum or making changes as the repetition continued. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z At the center of it all is the academy itself, a mentorship program convened as a kind of Platonic symposium, albeit one whose primary philosophical focus is analog synthesizer sounds and block-rocking beats. Red Bull Music Academy Comes to New York 2013-04-25T22:11:06Z But he surrounds them with a production, credited to Scoop DeVille, that keeps melting down and reshaping itself around him: with synthesizers and handclaps, with hard-rock guitars, with echoey backup voices. Jack Harlow Goes Deep on Race and Rap, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Each of them worked on both shallow, effective club fodder — with blippy stereo-hopping synthesizers and generic titles like “Girl Gone Wild” and “Turn Up the Radio” — and songs that venture toward the personal. Critic?s Notebook: ?MDNA,? Madonna?s 12th Studio Album 2012-03-26T18:12:55Z His synthesizer lines whistled, gurgled, cackled, squished, snickered and belched; their pitches might wriggle, and their tones could bristle and bite. Bernie Worrell, Whose Keyboards Left an Imprint on Funk and Hip-Hop, Dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z “Hard II Love” is filled with synthesizer bass lines and the shallow, spattering percussion of trap, and Usher uses his share of Auto-Tune and choppy digital edits; his songs are aimed at radio. Review: Usher’s ‘Hard II Love’ Uses Regret as a Selling Point 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z It made sense, then, that the pioneers of avant-garde but accessible synthesizer pop should bestride a lineup that also featured Hot Chip, Britain's leading geek techno band. Latitude festival 2013 – review 2013-07-21T17:05:30Z Last year Moog produced a limited-edition replica version of the synthesizer that Keith Emerson played in the 1970s with Emerson Lake & Palmer, down to replicating the stickers he adorned his instrument with. The synth is back: KORG and Moog revive golden-era analog synthesizers 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z It’s full of energetic sounds that span the entire left-to-right spectrum of stereo, bounce from lower to higher frequencies and include sweeps of white noise synthesizer sounds. The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in "Abbey Road" 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z In other words, it sounds like the future of electronic music: imagining a world where the synthesizer will create something besides hooky pop beats. Flume's New Album Skin Is The Gritty Future of Electronic Music 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Funny enough, in the studio we tend to lean towards modular synthesizers, old fashioned synthesizers, from the ’70s through the ’80s. Delta Force: A Q&A with Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan 2013-04-04T11:00:37Z But is the nervy, aggressive, computer-age precision of the synthesizer on the CBS recording the best way to evoke Gandhi’s gradual organization of mass protests at the end of the second act? A Jaw-Dropping Philip Glass Opera Is Finally on Video 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Sivan Jacobovitz’s electronic score, borrowing some ambient mood from Ben Frost and Burial, supplies rumbles, buzzes and synthesizer clouds. Review: Where a Boxer’s Clinch Is a Slow-Dance Embrace 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z The score — incorporating banjo, guitar, drums, accordion and a synthesizer — begins with a war march before shooting into different genres, from bluegrass to ’80s synth pop and garage rock. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z He brought a lot of his flair to the record and we used some 808s and some weird synthesizers. | Wild Belle's 'Backslider' 2012-10-17T15:21:44Z But the eighth notes keep ticking along, and the guitar and synthesizer jab and perk. Music Review: Back to New Wave, Older and Somewhat Wiser 2011-05-26T22:08:09Z Part of the music curriculum was to do a Timara piece, and that, for me was like, “Oh, this is my jam,” to work with synthesizers and combine them with acoustic sounds. The Creator of ‘Radiolab,’ a Lapsed Composer, Returns to Music 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z I liked the idea of creating soundscapes on synthesizers and twisting knots of sound.” Indians interview: The beauty in forgetting what you've learned 2013-02-28T03:22:00Z Eight or more duffs were used for the beats, primarily supported by timpani and other percussion from a synthesizer and mandolins for the melody, along with further processed elements. ‘Naatu Naatu’ From ‘RRR’ Is a Worldwide Hit, but It Draws on Very Local Traditions 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z It’s an unexpected companion piece to “Best of Joy,” a love song that promises, “We are forever” over acoustic guitar and twinkling synthesizer. Arts & Leisure Preview: After Death, the Remix 2010-12-09T16:58:00Z He also is among musicians interacting with fans online at http://www.thepublicrecord.com, where he invites people to send him guitar riffs, synthesizer tones or other clips, and he'll videotape himself mixing them in on his turntables. Beastie Boys DJ Mix Master Mike to perform in Vail 2010-12-07T22:20:00Z Sun Ra conveyed this through a polyrhythmic jumble of horns, synthesizers, piano chords and drums. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z That, too, made for a bloated evening, in length and in a maximalist scoring for over 70 musicians, including electric guitar and synthesizer. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The best song at the Radiohead show Monday night at KeyArena was "Everything in Its Right Place," a soft synthesizer ballad which the British rock band transformed into a thumping dance jam. Concert review: Radiohead unremarkably good at KeyArena 2012-04-10T14:46:06Z The album’s watchwords are the refrain of “Your Reality,” a track that meshes syncopated, ambiguous synthesizer chords and a sighing string quartet: “Surreal but free — it’s your reality.” Sylvan Esso’s New Album of Electro-pop Challenges All Expectations 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z His tracks borrow from all over the place: trance-music synthesizer arpeggios in “Run the Heart,” rockabilly reverb in “A/B Machines,” metal power chords in “Treats,” hardcore guitar frenzy in “Straight A’s.” Critics? Choice: New CDs by LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses 2010-05-16T22:45:00Z In “What You Do to Me,” anger seesaws with lust — “Make me love and hate you at the same time” — pitting a low synthesizer against a stomping beat. John Legend: Love Songs That Bow to Dark Shadows 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z And her use of synthesizers will confuse any listener’s senses. On her sophomore album, Anna Wise paints a nuanced picture of female empowerment 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z On Friday night the canonical minimalist Philip Glass played three of his études at the piano alongside the experimental rock guitarist Tyondai Braxton, on guitar and synthesizer. Critic’s Notebook: I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival at Pier 36 2012-09-24T22:29:50Z Occasionally she engaged a digital drum track, and played left-hand chords on a late-’80s Roland synthesizer, with a watery preset tone that she didn’t change. Music Review: Annette Peacock at the Whitney Museum of American Art 2013-04-28T20:59:36Z For all the compositional ambition, there’s also tomfoolery; yes, those synthesizer motifs sound like squeeze toys. Review: On ‘La Di Da Di,’ the Latest From Battles, Momentum Is a Driving Force 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The songs have a theoretical flavor, as if each one is testing a slightly different recipe of crisp percussion and hovering synthesizers. New Music: The Debut of Ultraísta, and ‘Glad Rag Doll’ by Diana Krall 2012-10-01T21:36:40Z Even something that sounds like the subtle use of a synthesizer on "Home," the CD's closing track, is an electronically treated voice. Electronic, a cappella Radiohead? Sonos goes there 2010-12-16T05:01:05Z The recording sounds like just a guitar — or is it a synthesizer? The Playlist: Frank Ocean Rescues ‘Moon River,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Six nights and two afternoons a week, the synthesizers blare, the lights flash and the strains of Tears for Fears are heard over Broadway. Don’t You Forget About Me: The Formerly Irredeemable ’80s Return 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The result was an instrumental blend of acoustic piano and synthesizer that provided a lush, pulsating accompaniment to the dramatic scene of young men in training. Hugh Hudson, Director of ‘Chariots of Fire,’ Dies at 86 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Layers of synthesizers wrap the watery narratives, resulting in spacey, gauzy guitar-pop that craves ambience but doesn't know how to get there. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z And after her divorce from Mr. Peacock and marriage to the renowned pianist Paul Bley it also led her to Robert Moog, the inventor of the analog synthesizer. Annette Peacock Has Been Improvising Music for 7 Decades. Her Life, Too. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z In 2014, Mr. Akinmusire released a more chilling and expansive follow-up, “Roll Call for Those Absent,” consisting of the names of casualties sounded out by a child, over a darkly unsettled synthesizer hum. A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z It mingles the standard four-on-the-floor beat and synthesizer pulses of trance with all sorts of things: rock guitar, quasiclassical piano, Middle Eastern melodies. Pop Music Choices for New Year?s Eve 2011-12-29T23:59:04Z Everything is amplified — the hollow thwacks of percussion, the glimmering walls of synthesizers, Ms. Mayberry’s sweet pleas and deceptive darts. Chvrches Offer Hymns From the Altar of ’80s New Wave at SummerStage 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z He dialed his Korg M1 synthesizer to the next preset, landing on Organ 2, and replayed his bass line. Beyoncé’s ‘Break My Soul’ and the Long Tail of ‘Show Me Love’ 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z There is the usual annihilation: percussive synthesizers deployed with force on songs like “All Is Fair in Love and Brostep” and “Try It Out.” New Music: Skrillex Releases ‘Recess’; Dan Weiss’s ‘Fourteen’ 2014-03-17T21:45:45Z Even “Love Story,” the only tune on the set list released before 2012, was excellently reimagined as a surging new wave ballad, heavy on synthesizers and doused in Aqua Net. A sleek, poised Taylor Swift breaks from boy-crazy narrative at Nats Park 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The track opens with a meandering two-and-a-half minute instrumental introduction, slowly building from a breathy synthesizer drone to the disorienting sound of numerous ticking clocks. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Preceding Branch, Weathersby alternated between southern soul splashed with synthesizer fanfares and torrid guitar rave-ups indebted to Albert King, as he sang with gruff soulfulness and played firestorm guitar on King's "Floodin' in California." Blues remain vital at Chicago Blues fest 2011-06-12T12:41:00Z The arrangement and instrumentation - cheesy synthesizers, booming drums - date the recording immediately in the late 1980s. Whitney Houston's voice will never be forgotten 2012-02-12T03:58:22Z All bookish lyrics and driving rhythms, baroque arrangements with New Wave synthesizers, “Rhumb” and 2010 follow-up “The Orchard” — both issued by Seattle’s influential Barsuk Records — established the group as one to watch. Ra Ra Riot’s new album is a pleasing radio-ready departure 2013-02-07T23:24:56Z At one side of the club’s stage, the composer and record producer Craig Leon conjured a hypnotic drone from his synthesizer and laptop; on the other, his wife and collaborator, Cassell Webb, commanded another synth. Craig Leon Rerecords Two Synth Classics 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z From his birthplace in Minnesota, the man born Prince Nelson Rodgers created an entire school of music—the Minneapolis sound, marked by staccato beats, stabbing synthesizers, and funky bass lines, all grounded in resounding melodies. Prince Was the Great Purple Genius of Paisley Park 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z It kicks off with range of samples and synthesizers and, at first listen, the electronic sound seems to be a radical departure from the three albums which precede it. Bombay Bicycle Club unveil new album 2013-11-08T07:45:51Z Working in his small studio - "essentially it's just a synthesizer museum" - he was free to indulge his most outlandish ideas. Think Pink: Kasabian annotate their album artwork 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z They provided him with "extensive electronic sketches" — synthesizer approximations of orchestral music and iTunes playlists running the gamut of 20th century film composers that were indicative of the "timeless" vibe they wanted. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z “A Taste of a Memory” opens with minutes of solitary piano before a synthesizer starts to echo its tones. Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The music started: “Antepoc,” with a cloud of scraping synthesizer noise, then a bass line and a beat. Music Review: Duchess Says, Canadian Band, at Public Assembly 2012-08-26T21:11:40Z Breakbeats and crying synthesizers sound good in the open air — they just do. Photos and crowd analysis: Truckasauras 'Street Truck' 2012-08-02T18:11:05Z Urged by Zappa, he said, he experimented with a few types of synthesizers before settling on the ARP Odyssey, “purely to be different from Jan Hammer, who was playing the Minimoog.” George Duke, Crossover Musician With Frank Zappa, Dies at 67 2013-08-07T02:22:54Z It’s an ever-evolving succession of thick, harmonically ambiguous synthesizer chords, coalescing into a rhythm and pushing it aside, accelerating and falling apart and reconverging. Foo Fighters Begin a New Chapter, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z After a standing ovation, Hancock strapped on a synthesizer keyboard for an encore of "Time After Time" and "So What." Montreux fetes Miles Davis with "soundtrack" to his life 2011-07-14T13:56:02Z Still, “Shriek” is more of a continuation than a disruption: It’s a product of the catalytic bond between Mr. Stack, on synthesizers and drum programming, and Ms. Wasner, on electric bass. New Music: Albums From Wye Oak and Sd Laika 2014-04-28T21:13:32Z The core Algiers band — with Fisher on nearly every instrument; Ryan Mahan primarily on synthesizers and bass; Lee Tesche on guitars and Matthew Tong on drums — uses its physical and technological virtuosity almost paradoxically. Algiers Blasts Songs of Damage and Redemption on ‘Shook’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z In some cases, the synthesizer simply sounds like another instrument: In “Here Comes the Sun,” the Moog mimics the guitar. The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in "Abbey Road" 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z “Composing the way I do is a very labor-intensive thing, because I don’t have synthesizers and computers and so on,” Williams said. Why Kobe Bryant hired John Williams to compose the score for his 'Dear Basketball' film 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Sometimes she supported her wandering voice with a breathy, billowing chord on the synthesizer. Annette Peacock Has Been Improvising Music for 7 Decades. Her Life, Too. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Laden with synthesizers, “Out of the Woods” is clearly in the pop realm, demonstrating Ms. Swift’s transition from crossover country phenomenon to unqualified pop star. Taylor Swift’s 'Out of the Woods' Lives Up to The Hype, Soaring to No. 1 on iTunes 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z With a proudly discordant yelp in her voice, Indigo De Souza vents every bit of her annoyance at her latest hookup in “You Can Be Mean,” a grungy stomp topped by a mock synthesizer. Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z On the new album, Khalid embraces a fuller sound that often harks back to the 1980s and 1990s, with pillowy synthesizers, tickling guitars and multiple layers of his own vocal harmonies. Khalid Has Fresh Insecurities and a New Set of Musical Tricks on ‘Free Spirit’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “As for the bell, she wants a church bell to suggest funerals, not a chime or a synthesizer.” William Brohn, Who Made Broadway Orchestras Sing, Dies at 84 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z A colorfully lit, hexagonal passageway leads to the new Sound Space and mezcal bar, where this reporter attended an interactive music night featuring an improvised analog synthesizer set. Cultured Traveler: Underground London 2014-01-17T21:43:10Z Yet there’s nothing tentative in the music, which saturates the frequency spectrum with ballooning bass lines, cloudlike synthesizer chords, hefty drum-machine accents and arena-scale distorted guitar. Playlist: New Music From Washed Out, Buddy Guy and Natalia Lafourcade 2013-08-09T18:39:31Z Rowling is a literary magpie and first-rate synthesizer, and her stated inspirations for the Harry Potter books range from classical mythology to Jane Austen. ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Review: Apocalypse Too Soon 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The title track is a spoken word groove inspired by Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” accentuated by backup singers and the sweep of Bullens’s electric synthesizer. This is pioneering rocker Cidny Bullens’s ninth album. But his first as a man. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z With his mechanized drums, his preferred nasal synthesizer tones and a mix that squashes a lot into the midrange, Mr. Parker sounds very cloistered and alone, even as he hears a pop world calling. Review: Tame Impala’s New Album Clears the Haze 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The track opens with bleary synthesizers and mock-casual rapping, then gathers echoing guitars and a heftier beat until Strange is belting, “Hungry as ever/there’s never enough!” Bartees Strange Ponders Success in Dire Times 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Her motifs for electric guitar and Minimalist synthesizers bring to mind the music of William Brittelle; the writing for voices — both complex and soothing — is reminiscent of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “Mass for the Endangered.” 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The only flaw in Ms. Mohapatra’s presentation was the music, which was not only recorded but also partially marred by some awful synthesizer sounds. Dance Review: Odissi Dancer Sujata Mohapatra at Erasing Borders Festival 2012-04-10T21:49:08Z Other singers might have larded the song with synthesizers and punctuating drums, but Celeste knew to keep it simple. Celeste, a Young Singer With an Old Soul, Makes Her Move 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Instead, on “Abbey Road,” the band capitalizes on the synthesizer’s versatility, creatively using it to enhance, rather than dominate, their tracks. The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in "Abbey Road" 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z He conceived his instruments, including a voltage-controlled modular synthesizer, as tools for creating previously unheard sounds and gave them names like the Music Easel, Thunder or simply the Buchla Box. Don Buchla, Inventor, Composer and Electronic Music Maverick, Dies at 79 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z In January, she released “Middle Ouest,” a strangely seductive album that tethered amorphous synthesizer splashes to the percussive traditions of her native Morocco. Review | In a lost year for dance music, Bergsonist kept a techno diary 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The more those tendencies collide, the better he is, as in “Hearts That Never,” which is doubly obsessed: with the romance in the lyrics and with a relentlessly blipping synthesizer momentum. New Music From Kathryn Calder, Buxton, Nadine Shah, East India Youth and Tal National 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z He helped Mr. Ketoff develop a portable version, the Synket, and used it to give some of the first live performances of electronic music on a synthesizer. John Eaton, Composer and Electronic Innovator, Dies at 80 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z The instrument is a kind of “brain-computer interface,” and sounds like an electric piano, electric strings, or whatever other kind of music the connected synthesizer can produce. Meet the encephalophone: An instrument you can play with your mind, just by thinking 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The Rolling Stones' involvment with analog synthesizers is a fascinating saga. Watch Keith Richards try to play a synthesizer in 1969 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Sampled and warped vocals, echoey synthesizers, turntable scratching and eruptive percussion all ricochet around his promises of hot times after sunset. Taylor Swift’s Revised ‘Revenge,’ and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z On “Two More Lonely People,” bright acoustic guitars slash hard against bouncy synthesizers, suggesting, of all things, vintage Debbie Gibson. Music: Miley Cyrus Is Growing Up and Testing Identities 2010-06-29T21:41:00Z Zimmer and Wallfisch only quoted an actual Vangelis motif once in the score, but they rooted the music in his vintage synthesizer palette. How to compete with the original ‘Blade Runner’ score: Pay homage to it 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Breathe Carolina, a band from Denver, made electropop that Warped can love: with two vocalists, yearning and screaming; with synthesizer tones that used dubstep’s distorted buzz; and with occasional blasts of metallic guitar. Music Review: Warped Tour Returns to Nassau Coliseum 2012-07-22T22:51:26Z In Germany in the late sixties and seventies, forward-looking musicians were working with sequencers, analog synthesizers, drum machines, tape loops, and exotic instruments. The Invention of Ambient Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Most of the new songs frame her voice with synthesizer lines and programmed beats that promise pop transparency and impact. St. Vincent Makes Her Move Into Pop With ‘Masseduction’ 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The record is elegant and gauzy, done mostly with live drums and synthesizer, and dabs of guitar, piano and strings. Review: In Carla Morrison’s ‘Amor Supremo,’ Love and the Void 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z It’s full of synthesizers, heavily compressed guitars and filtered vocals that invoke both the 1970s productions of Queen and Electric Light Orchestra and the cybernetic flavor of Daft Punk. Review: Tame Impala’s New Album Clears the Haze 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Will, who not only composes music but also plays synthesizer, bass, guitar and percussion, was also nominated for an Academy Award earlier this year for Best Original Score for the movie Her. Arcade Fire's Will Butler Is Releasing a Solo Album 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The album opens, pointedly, with “Intern,” a track using only sustained synthesizers and organ, far from folk or indie-rock. Review: Angel Olsen’s ‘My Woman’ Goes Fearlessly Retro 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z She forged past skepticism about electronic music in the 1970s, embracing Buchla synthesizers as her instruments of choice. Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Compositionally, these songs are fairly spare—a synthesizer, a pulsing drum machine—which allows Yorke’s strange, mesmerizing voice, sometimes raw and sometimes processed, to anchor each piece. Thom Yorke’s “Anima” Is His Best Solo Album 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z For example, in the mid-’80s there was a fashion for inappropriately positive or uplifting synthesizer music in grim sci-fi and horror films, so that was certainly something we were going for. A Word With: Boards of Canada: ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest,’ by Boards of Canada 2013-06-11T21:13:07Z He treats his guitar, synthesizers, drum machines and electronic effects as architectural elements — sound becomes contour; music becomes something to step into rather than merely follow. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z If so, it'd be some futuristic horror movie, filled as it is with throbs of analog synthesizer tones and big, grand keyboard clusters. Essential tracks: John Carpenter's 'Lost Themes' gives off eerie, futuristic sounds 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z His preferred sounds are cloudlike, sustained synthesizer chords or sparse bits of piano that well up gradually, then ripple off into the distance. Playlist : New Releases: Atlas Sound, Lila Downs and Michael Jackson 2011-11-27T05:03:07Z In the 1950s, RCA hired Babbitt as a consultant as it was developing the Mark II synthesizer. Avant-garde composer Milton Babbitt dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:55:09Z Their sets shared something else, as well, in the way they both highlighted the roots of now contemporary styles, in The Cure’s case, its early exploration of the synthesizer sounds that rule pop music today. Sasquatch! wrap: The Cure delivers, Tacocat schools a stagehand and more 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z There were some twinkly synthesizer arpeggios as Bassnectar’s two-and-a-half-hour set began, along with the sampled promise that recurs throughout a signature Bassnectar track, “The Matrix”: “We drop bass in your face.” Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z His signature propulsive synthesizer music, which has become perhaps his most influential aesthetic contribution to the current vogue of horror, is playing as the breathing of Michael Myers gets louder. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The oboes and bassoon in the First Suite slid into harmonies as though they were synthesizers. Academy of Ancient Music takes on Bach in Disney Hall debut 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z But a modern invention, “blue neon,” appears, as do swelling synthesizer tones. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Hypnotic world-music grooves mesh with blues and country, as loops and programming mingle with banjo, electric guitars, synthesizers and a one-stringed West African fiddle. Robert Plant Releases ‘lullaby and The Ceaseless Roar’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Yet all the technology of the Moog guitar is analog, no digital, no synthesizer. Switched-on guitar: Fareed Haque meets the Moog 2011-01-24T14:43:52Z In “Black Skinhead” he snarls, “I’ve been a menace for the longest/But I ain’t finished, I’m devoted,” over a track that switches between a blunt glam-rock drumbeat and a distorted synthesizer line. Music Review: ‘Yeezus,’ Kanye West’s Raw and Jolting New Album 2013-06-16T18:25:47Z But it wouldn’t have been nearly as potent a nostalgia injection if it hadn’t been all bathed in the old film’s warm, buzzy, synthesizer hymn by Vangelis. How to compete with the original ‘Blade Runner’ score: Pay homage to it 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z But its repeating synthesizer lines, impassive vocals and recursive lyrics were already enmeshed with the technologies of transportation, media and music — recurring Kraftwerk subjects. Music Review: Music Review ? Kraftwerk at the Museum of Modern Art 2012-04-11T07:45:25Z Of Mice & Men Austin Carlile was the original lead singer of Attack Attack!, which after his departure went on to plant a flag at the intersection of screamo and synthesizers, turf that few bands covet. Playlist: New Music From Gary Allan and Marvin Sapp 2010-04-02T20:57:00Z Around nine seconds in, a quick line of synthesizer squeaks off in an odd direction. Listening Booth: “Baby Girl” by Matt Martians 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Insistent disco-punk beats underline airy synthesizers and clashing guitars, which tussle throughout the song with varying degrees of aggression. The top 15 modern rock #1 hits that actually stand the test of time 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Until the end of the first run of “Doctor Who,” in 1989, the show’s underscoring would be mostly done on contemporary synthesizers. The Music of “Doctor Who” Makes a Glorious Return to Form 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z “No Flex Zone” is a bouncy howler — the beat moves from a whisper to pinballing angular percussion, cut through with sunbeam-bright synthesizer. Out of Left Field, but Swinging Hard 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Why did you decide to have a vintage mid-'80s synthesizer engraved on your arm? The Darkness's Justin Hawkins: 'Contrary to expectations, you'd never catch me dogging' 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z Two album-side-length instrumental compositions featuring percussion, flute, synthesizers and many untethered frequencies, “Visitations” is a soothing listen, but underneath the floating tones are ominous textures that add tension. Throwbacks: Vinyl and digital reissues of note for winter-spring 2015 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Its sound is mercurial, almost like a synthesizer in its mutability: now a liquid stream of notes, silvery and flowing, and now a tinnier rasping beat. Loosening its tie, NSO debuts a steelpan work and its composer 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z On top of everything: cheap clouds of intuitively voiced synthesizer chords, so wrong they’re right. Sweet or Hardcore, Nothing Is Quite What It Seems 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The forlorn pianos and light percussion of Smith’s signature ballads have largely been swapped out for synthesizers and electronic beats. Sam Smith Seeks Self-Acceptance and Catharsis, and a Sound to Match 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Mournful loops of electrified cello overlaid throbbing synthesizer, the music constantly spinning apart and reassembling into a whole. 15 Musicians Spent the Night in an Active Volcano. Listen to What Happened. 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “I am not a racist in any form whatsoever,” he says, his voice fading against a glow of synthesizers, the ending of that story artfully left unsaid. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z His guitars and synthesizers throb and bounce in the way familiar from the Brat Pack era soundtracks and early Depeche Mode, like a continuation of a project left unfinished by others. New Music: Releases From Kurt Feldman, Elle Varner and Marcus Miller 2012-08-06T22:24:05Z The opening vibes riff is etched sharply against a dramatically yawning bass synthesizer in a recording released last year by the Belgian label Sub Rosa, featuring ensemble 0 and Aum Grand Ensemble. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z These are ancient Indian hymns swaddled in the newfangled synthesizer technology of the time. Perspective | Alice Coltrane is finally heralded as a jazz great. A new reissue doesn’t do her justice. 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z All the same, he had written and recorded his last album, “You Want It Darker,” in his small living room, where he kept a keyboard synthesizer, a couple of guitars, and a studio-quality microphone. Leonard Cohen and the Divine Voice 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The value — musical, sentimental and monetary — of analog synthesizers, however, has been steadily growing since their premature demise in the early years of the Reagan administration. The synth is back: KORG and Moog revive golden-era analog synthesizers 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In 1970 he moved to New York, where he spent eight years staging futuristic performances — think synthesizers and plexiglass — before returning to Japan, where he continued performing and making art until his death in 2010. 2 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z His arms race-like passion for the latest gadgets point to an eagerness to push his music forward, but details of efforts to customize and rewire early synthesizers will satisfy only the most devout gear-heads. Herbie Hancock's memoir recalls a creative life and all that jazz She’s an award-winning English poet and a playwright, and when she’s backed by the synthesizer-topped wallop of her band, she’s also a fully skilled rapper with vehement momentum and an intense rhythmic drive. SXSW Music 2015: The First Day's Worthy Showcases 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z She produced it with Aaron Dessner, from the majestically pensive indie-rock band the National, and its tracks deploy orchestral arrangements and synthesizers along with bluesy shuffles and a soul horn section. Adia Victoria Wants to Make the Blues Dangerous Again 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z On the new album, Bonzie’s music merges the singer-songwriter staples of guitar, piano and finely turned melodies with synthesizers and programmed beats. Bonzie Longs for a Post-Pandemic ‘Reincarnation’ 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z "Norway" was another, its wavering synthesizer line blossoming into stately indie rock, from "Teen Dream," also on Sub Pop. Concert review: Beach House at Showbox 2012-10-05T16:31:07Z As the elevated subway rumbled nearby, several musicians in Bossa Nova’s backyard discussed their collections of vintage synthesizers. Boîte: Review - Bossa Nova Civic Club in Bushwick 2013-05-15T20:36:18Z "When Doves Cry" into "I Would Die 4 U" was a special transition, industrial drums shuddering into zooming synthesizers. Prince showers the Dome in 'Purple Rain' 2011-12-20T20:09:12Z Adams originally created a multichannel electronic piece using synthesizers before synthesizers became "cold and digital." 'Available Light,' a performance art landmark, makes the leap from 1983 to 2015 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The form is characterized by heavily auto-tuned lyrics that explore nihilistic and dark topics, which then are layered over warbled sub-bass layers and synthesizers. Seattle-area music and nightlife events Sept. 21-27: Chief Keef, Larry Carlton Quartet, and more 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The electronic keyboard was capable of creating a wide variety of sounds and was a precursor to modern synthesizers. Electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey, of Disneyland’s Main Street Electrical Parade fame, dies at 87 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z There’s even a fund-raising drive under way to erect a museum named for Bob Moog, the synthesizer pioneer, who lived in Asheville, that will trace the intersection of science and music. 36 Hours in Asheville, N.C. 2010-10-22T05:00:00Z Then the synthesizers appear, throbbing and lurching, dropping out and plunging back in with dubstep impact, pushing distortion into the mix. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Smoldering Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Miku also happens to be a humanoid — an animated character who appears onstage via 3-D projection and was originally designed to sell a synthesizer application. Laurel Halo Shakes Up Her Sound After Partnering With a Humanoid Pop Star 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z But the music carries him, a spiraling crescendo with guitars and synthesizer swells, kicking into a four-on-the-floor beat, pumping toward a final realization: “Sometimes it’s hard, but you know I’m thankful.” Bartees Strange Ponders Success in Dire Times 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z "Till the World Ends" sets the tone with its steady climb into Euro-disco ebullience, with stuttering, wordless vocals and grand washes of synthesizers. Spears just along for the ride — all the way to the bank 2011-03-25T21:31:45Z "We wanted to avoid the easy out of synthesizers," Pierson says, "which can sound any way you like." Alarm Will Sound, experimenting in all directions 2012-04-19T20:27:03Z We use a children’s choir instead of a synthesizer. A Word With: Mark Morris: Cracking Open A Holiday Classic 2010-12-02T22:55:00Z The most obvious of those threads is the number seven: seven acoustic instruments — violin, viola, cello, flute, harp, percussion and harpsichord along with synthesizer, augmented by electronics — traverse seven movements, each cast in seven sections. Exploring the Magic of Seven 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z Then one might begin to appreciate the deadpan delight in his conversion of the Fruitmarket staircase into a synthesizer to be played on by visitors' feet. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z The musical accompaniment is provided by a recorded phonogram synthesizer. Operatic day at the beach evokes climate crisis 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Flanked by a baby-grand piano and a computer stacked on a synthesizer, Mr. Brittelle still looks like a chic rock star with his piercing gaze, casual bed-head coif and neatly managed stubble. William Brittelle?s Return to His Voice and Vision 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z The track, produced by Sounwave with the composer of the film’s orchestral score, Ludwig Göransson, uses a low, scowling synthesizer line, West African talking drums and a thumping beat suggesting South African house music. Kendrick Lamar Gives ‘Black Panther’ a Weighty Soundtrack 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z There are no drums; the music gets its pulse from rhythmic synthesizer tones and rippling guitar chords, and near the end the parts multiply into an overarching neo-Baroque polyphony of computer-tuned vocals and countermelodies. On ‘The New Abnormal,’ the Strokes Flip Nostalgia Toward the Future 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z It’s soon joined by several delicate synthesizer sounds. The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in "Abbey Road" 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z It begins by setting Banks amid wordless voices and a few sparse piano notes, opens an abyss with deep bass notes, then closes in with suffocating synthesizer chords and whizzing, menacing effects. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z It earned instant comparisons to earlier technologies that disrupted the music industry, including the dawn of the synthesizer, the sampler and the file-sharing service Napster. An A.I. Hit of Fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Rattles the Music World 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Lights flash, synthesizers rock the arena, and what was almost a spoken-word performance suddenly turns into a dance party. The Last Concert: Indie Icons LCD Soundsystem Bid a Brilliant, Bizarre Adieu 2011-04-04T10:15:00Z Nisa muses, at first just above a whisper, about a deteriorating relationship; her voice is cushioned by synthesizer chords while guitar lines poke at her like unwanted realizations. Paramore Steps Into a New Era, and 8 More New Songs 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The gently cascading song was spiked with synthesizer squawks, and the aching, sensuous melody seemed like an afterthought. Perfume Genius, intensely personal and enthralling A cutting-edge digital synthesizer called the Fairlight CMI, which Bush had started experimenting with on "Never For Ever," became a dominant canvas. Kate Bush's bewitching "The Dreaming" turns 40 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Standouts like the sleek and dreamy “Speeding” and “Running With the Boys,” the album’s namesake, bounce along atop romantic, ’80’s-leaning synthesizers and licks of New Wave guitar, as she dreamily recalls days gone by. Review: Lights Burns Bright on Dreamy Little Machines 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Chance’s version is both brighter and more insular; his band backs him with spare, cushioning synthesizers. The Playlist: New Songs From Prince and Garth Brooks, if You Can Find Them 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Especially during “It Just Doesn’t Happen,” a new song with a bright, beaming synthesizer melody that shot into the room like alien sunlight. Review | Dan Bejar is not here to comfort you 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z It partly harks back to Stevens’ 2010 album, “The Age of Adz,” which embraced excess, piling synthesizers atop orchestras, choirs and rock band. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z And even then he occasionally messes up; his original version of the classic “Hallelujah” is weighed down with soggy synthesizers and reverb. Box sets 2011, from Beach Boys to U2 2011-12-06T05:45:00Z The synthesizers normally occupy the top part of the mix, but Angelakos’ falsetto went higher still, often supported by munchkin-like backing vocals. Concert review: Passion Pit at UIC Pavilion 2013-02-23T06:19:00Z It’s a general matter of tempo and synthesizer tones and arrangements in old-fashioned eighth-note electro-rock, but here and there it gets specific. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Sarah McLachlan, Devo and Tom Petty 2010-06-13T21:44:00Z The synthesizer part is that one last bit of hope you keep hanging on to.” Indians interview: The beauty in forgetting what you've learned 2013-02-28T03:22:00Z Her voice was vivid and clear in pop arrangements pulsating with synthesizers and kicking in with harder drumbeats on choruses. Eras Mix Among 1,300 Groups at CMJ Music Marathon 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z But the music was bold and clear-cut, a return to 1980s new wave with steadfast drumbeats, neatly picked hooks from guitar and bass, and smoothly sustained synthesizer tones. Music Review: Frankie Rose at the Knitting Factory 2012-02-23T23:17:43Z He recorded a song that night filled with ominous synthesizers. Finding Songs Hidden in Britain’s Thankful Villages 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The synthesizers simulated chamber orchestras, non-Western stringed instruments or the deep bass of a didgeridoo; two percussionists used hand drums alongside a trap kit. Music Review: Dead Can Dance at Beacon Theater 2012-08-30T21:48:08Z The striking "Sleep Like a Baby" opens with a heavy analog synthesizer and finds Bono's voice, still miraculously evocative, enveloped in echo and strings. On U2's 'Songs of Innocence,' you get what you pay for (and more) 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z She got a Korg Triton synthesizer and the audio production software Logic Pro. Chill Vibes, Minus the Wind Chimes: It’s a New Day for New Age Music 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z She frequently harmonized with her backing tracks in unexpected ways, and her band was interesting, too: One guy handled synthesizer duties while two drummers played separate kits over the set’s pre-recorded dance rhythms. Tove Lo sings about sex, drugs and more sex. Why aren’t we scandalized? 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The name of the instrument with which Mr. Duke is perhaps most closely associated also describes his approach to music: synthesizer. George Duke, Crossover Musician With Frank Zappa, Dies at 67 2013-08-07T02:22:54Z “Because I could play keyboards, I knew the synthesizer. And I knew I could make things sound big with enough tracks — I could make it almost sound like an electronic orchestra.” Spend Halloween with John Carpenter: Why the horror movie man wants to play scary music, just for you 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z It was certainly not irrelevant that Bowie was a musical innovator and synthesizer of amazing facility and fluidity, one of a handful of genuine geniuses of what Casey Kasem used to call the “rock era.” Rebel, alien, cynic, dreamer: David Bowie’s chimerical genius, and cultural importance, go way beyond pop music 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z In the 1950s Mr. Babbitt was hired as a consultant by RCA, which was developing the most sophisticated electronic-music instrument of the time, the Mark II synthesizer. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z The ticking clocks, alarms and chimes that open “Time” are startlingly realistic even when they’re no longer a surprise, and the perpetual-motion synthesizers and desperate footfalls of “On the Run” are eternally dizzying. After Half a Century, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z And although technology, including a synthesizer, is a typically fundamental part of the evening's proceedings, it is presented in this piece without optimism or pizazz. Laurie Anderson's 'Delusion' well-suited for a wintry night 2011-01-12T21:52:03Z High shimmers and washes of abstract sound are punctuated by bird calls and sampled percussion, and sustained synthesizers test the boundaries between drone and glacial melody. The Playlist: Justin Bieber Boosts a Friend, and 14 More New Songs 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The brand’s name is polysemic, deriving from the ARP 2600 modular synthesizer, the Greek word for harp and the work of the German French artist Jean Arp. For Barnabé Fillion, Fragrance Is a Multisensory Affair 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Guitar is less prominent, used to color in the cracks with minimal dabs of synthesizer, so when one does crash to the forefront in “Rose Red,” it’s thrilling. Album review: Sons and Daughters, 'Mirror Mirror' 2011-07-11T04:18:00Z The writer-director Jacob Gentry obviously loves the genre he’s taken on, or at least he loves “Blade Runner,” to judge by the shadows, window blinds and synthesizer flourishes ornamenting “Synchronicity.” Review: ‘Synchronicity’ Plays With Time and Love 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The sound on “Strange Mercy” is similarly confounding: dry, compressed drums; neon synthesizer glare; aggressively processed guitars; calm, dispassionate singing. Music Review: St. Vincent Sings at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review 2011-08-26T23:18:13Z Digital technology made many aspects of making music with synthesizers more convenient but, a growing crowd of analog enthusiasts say, at the expense of the unlimited flexibility of analog instruments. The synth is back: KORG and Moog revive golden-era analog synthesizers 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z At City College of San Francisco, he withdrew into the newly established Electronic Music Lab, which had a set of early, compact analog synthesizers. Waking the Spirit of a Disco Innovator 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z “Consequences” itself, a lovers’ quarrel, begins with burbling, aquatic synthesizers, introduces a funky beat and bass line, tosses in jazzy piano clusters and, at one point, deploys Queen-like multitracked guitar. Joan Armatrading Is Still Searching for the Perfect Song 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Songs were guitar and synthesizer pop with the percussion emphasized, rock drums on top of drum machines going at the same time. Concert review: CANT at the Triple Door 10/03/11 2011-10-04T17:21:06Z Each one of the numerous indie-rock bands that incorporate synthesizer and dance beats is still following New Order’s lead, even 33 years after its debut album. Your week in Seattle music: Steely Dan, New Order, Lauryn Hill and more 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Sung in Neapolitan dialect with a trembling, dramatic vocal style and guitar and synthesizer backing redolent of 1980s rock, the tune is a prime example of Naples' neo-melodic music. Naples singer Nello Liberti investigated for glorifying the mafia 2012-02-08T17:29:31Z Programmed beats, synthesizer swoops, bass drones and layers of percussion only make the track bristle more intensely. Shakira and Ozuna’s Breakup Bachata, and 7 More New Songs 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z But for the new album Tamko relied instead on the computer software Logic along with her guitar, often layering her voice amid synthesizers and programmed drumbeats. Vagabon Found Her Voice in Indie Rock. Then Found a New One. 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The Baltimore dream-pop band Beach House’s sound thrives on repetition: lulling synthesizer drones, flowing guitar riffs and clipped phrases from the lead singer Victoria Legrand. Beach House at Webster Hall: The Art of a Set List 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Sans rapper Freeway grabbing for our ears on "African Drums," it's easier to hear the weirdly effective combination of hand-drum thuds, glockenspiel, and the synthesizer from DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's "Summertime." Get in the van: Jake One "Enstrumentals" 2011-03-09T18:45:06Z He created some of the earliest electronic pop albums, and was one of the first musicians to use the Moog synthesizer after it appeared in the 1960s. Jean-Jacques Perrey, Electronic Music Pioneer, Dies at 87 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z It’s a homage to Springsteen’s automotive love songs and arena-scale brooding — the sustained synthesizer hints at “Tougher Than the Rest” — and to their shared home state, New Jersey. Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa’s Retro Rock, and 8 More New Songs 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z “Analog synthesizers burble and snort, rock guitars fuzz out,” writes Mr. Pareles of the new album, adding: “the cadence and slang of the three rappers are strictly old school.” ArtsBeat: 'They Still Sound Like Amateurs' 2011-05-02T21:14:52Z At the beginning, Koné’s vocals are an urgent incantation amid reverent, hovering synthesizer tones, with a steady beat that slowly reveals itself. Rokia Koné, From Mali, Sings for the World. Especially Women. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Her pop soprano gets pitched further upward as the track begins; elusive background vocals and synthesizers puff their syncopations around the beat. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z For Muldrow, the parameters that control synthesizer tones — attack, decay, sustain and release — offer lessons beyond the recording studio. Georgia Anne Muldrow Builds a Musical World of Her Own 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z He was also an early experimenter with technology like synthesizers, vocoders and drum machines. Junie Morrison, a Funk Mastermind, Dies at 62 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Moog President Mike Adams says sales of synthesizers, guitars, effects pedals and Theremins are up 35 percent through April 2011 over the same period last year. NC's Moog Music: increased sales, new building 2011-05-13T18:14:10Z Their instruments included electric guitar, piano, clarinet and synthesizer, as well as sample loops, and traditional eastern Mediterranean instruments like the oud and the kanonaki. 15 Musicians Spent the Night in an Active Volcano. Listen to What Happened. 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Instead of noodling away on vintage Strats, the primary instruments at their disposal were a zither and a bedspring in a box, played with a bow, processed through a modular synthesizer to distort the sound. The Knife: 'Music history is written by privileged white men' 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z Most appalling was his decision to perform “Neptune,” the closing work, with a synthesizer standing in for the women’s chorus. Highs and lows at National Orchestral Institute program On the other hand, you never think that he’s some synthetic, airbrushed illusion — like many of the stadium-playing chart toppers of today — held together by smoke, mirrors and synthesizers. | 'Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway': ?Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway? at Broadhurst - Review 2011-11-11T03:01:10Z On his debut as a leader, he’s shrouded in synthesizers but never loses touch with hip-hop and gospel. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z They perfectly embody the spirit of summer with dueling vocals, lush synthesizers and soulful perversions. Summer Is Flying By. Plan Accordingly. 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Hooks are everywhere and not only in a song’s chorus: The wolf-whistles in “Jungle Love,” the echoing synthesizer in “Fly Like an Eagle,” the “hoo hoo” in “Take the Money and Run.” Steve Miller cracked the code of 1970s radio. But he’s still raging against the music industry. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Swaddled in synthesizers and trumpet effects, avoiding a firm tempo, Blanchard savors each unorthodox harmonic payoff, feeling no need to take a solo. John Coltrane’s Unearthed Live ‘A Love Supreme,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Despite being recorded on his laptop with a USB mic, it’s also his biggest-sounding album, thanks largely to his Sound Off! prize pack, which included an electric guitar, drum kit and synthesizer. Jason McCue, who almost quit music after two Seattle shows, is now a bright spot in local scene 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Analog synthesizers became a crucial element for the '70s progressive rock movement. The synth is back: KORG and Moog revive golden-era analog synthesizers 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z And then we hear the sound of escape itself, polychromatic chords stroked by synthesizers to shimmer at the edges, with matching voices singing of a bottomless appetite: “I just can’t get enough.” ‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In the margins, there are still strange happenings in the way the synthesizers snake and squirm, but mostly it’s about big beats and bigger voices. Album review: Run the Jewels, 'Run the Jewels' 2013-07-04T03:21:00Z It mingled drum machines and rock guitar, adding synthesizers and samples, with Mr. Jones singing and Don Letts sometimes rapping or toasting, Jamaican-style. Music Review: Coming a Long Way and Still Sounding Very Familiar 2011-04-20T23:30:50Z The synthesizer chords are frayed and quivery as her apologies tumble out — heartfelt but apparently too late. Cécile McLorin Salvant Branches Out, and 7 More New Songs 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z She was a self-taught musician, learning to make sounds with cheap synthesizers and inspired by her father’s cassette tapes of electronic-music raves. Sophie, Who Pushed the Boundaries of Pop Music, Dies at 34 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z He is also known for extensive electronic improvisations that make use of oscillators, synthesizers, tape recorders and flashlights, among others. Review: In ‘Takehisa Kosugi: Music Expanded,’ Violinist Uses More Than Strings and a Bow 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The title "Delta Machine" reflects the musicians' contradictory sounds - they're influenced by the Delta blues, but they also use technology like computers and synthesizers. Depeche Mode, 'pessimists at heart,' never imagined longevity 2013-03-14T19:45:05Z Crafting a hit single with sleek synthesizers, pillowy electronic drums and Auto-Tuned purrs might be enough to get you in the game, but it isn’t enough to win. Soft, smooth and steady: How Xanax turned American music into pill-pop 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z “Words under my breath float through the ceiling,” he sings softly to an object of unrequited affection, as an airy synthesizer riff evaporates like smoke. The Weeknd’s ‘Avatar’ Anthem, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z And “Oboe Concerto,” adagio and solemn with an old punk-song chord progression, deals with the subject of aging and death, with flurries of synthesizer static around the tune like a radar alert. Morrissey Releases ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z It just required a prolific synthesizer who saw the big picture — that the gun frontier “was a creation of Indian savvy and power, not white American Manifest Destiny.” When Native Americans were arms dealers: A history revealed in 'Thundersticks' 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Perky synthesizer arpeggios, a confident guitar line and a broad-shouldered drumbeat promise something cheerful. Björk Insists on Connection, and 11 More New Songs 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z This record was predominantly modular synthesizers that were manipulated and played and sent through amplifiers. Delta Force: A Q&A with Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan 2013-04-04T11:00:37Z “I would argue that if he were alive today, he’d be embracing synthesizers and samplers. He was always wanting to break new ground. He was a great modern artist in that regard.” UnSilent Cinema dumps the player piano and sets Chaplin, Keaton to new electronica and indie music 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z “Speaking of many, many levels ... ,” he said, trailing off as the band started the hurtling beat and buzzing synthesizer bass line of the next song, “Dancing Choose.” Music Review: Frenetic Intimations of, Yes, Positivity 2011-04-14T21:41:50Z Also this evening, Hval begins a set with “Lorna,” a dreamy track from her album last year, with a band of costumed players that includes synthesizers and a tuba. Warhol, Nico, a naked handstand, a crucifix: The Broad kicks off 'Happenings' with songs and shocks 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z And it’s slammed home in a production that’s minimal at first — an adamantly slow tempo, deep bass tones, viscous wah-ing synthesizer chords, some scattered percussion sounds — but grows monumental. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The beat, if there is one, might be a glitchy bit of static; the harmony keeps its distance, with sustained synthesizer tones, a treated guitar or a music-box glimmer. Playlist: Falling in Love, Longing and Leering 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z But three minutes into the song, the throbbing bass line suddenly cranks up, staggered against programmed hi-hats, a blooping synthesizer line and cascading, wordless vocals; she can dance her way free. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z For “Schlagenheim,” black midi expanded its lineup in the studio, using synthesizers and guest horn players, refusing to be confined by what its members could perform onstage. black midi’s Music Embraces the Extremes 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Amid bubbly synthesizers, cooing backup vocals and the tinkle of a toy piano, “Another Time Lover” breathily envisions a fantasy romance “on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.” The Playlist: The 1975 Talk About Its Generation, and 9 More New Songs 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z As a sketch-book-turned-album it's light but intriguing, colored with drum machines, old synthesizers and catchy bits of electric guitar. New local music by Truckasauras, Nacho Picasso and more 2012-06-01T02:31:17Z As the synthesizers pump and blip, the women sing praise for Mrs. Clinton and sharp digs at Donald J. Trump. The Playlist: David Bowie’s Unreleased Songs and a ‘Putin’ Satire 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Roden, a visual and sound artist based in L.A., is going to be taking over an underground racquetball court in downtown Santa Ana for a performance involving a modular synthesizer. Datebook: Hammer Biennial, Santa Ana sound art and lots of color field 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z All that freedom called for some ground rules – early on, Trapanese restricted the use of flutes and other woodwinds, typically used to add color and texture to a composition, because Gonzalez’s synthesizers filled that role. ‘Track Stars: M83 and the Music for Oblivion 2013-04-24T12:00:20Z As a vocalist, Morris takes her Nashville inheritance — vowels that curve parallel to a twang; legible, unambiguous lyrics — and sets them to tunes built with acoustic guitars, synthesizers and electronic percussion. Review | Maren Morris has the best voice in country music. She’s still learning how to use it. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The rise of new technologies — such as synthesizers, samplers and drum machines — in the 1980s ushered in a new style of music, personified in bands like Duran Duran or the Eurythmics. Study of 17,000 Songs Finds That Hip-Hop Made Most Impact 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z What’s most immediately striking about the 10 songs are the synthesizers gurgling and pulsing in the places where Van Etten’s plaintive guitar previously resided. Review | Sharon Van Etten’s 9:30 Club show was emotional, jittery and very much a new chapter 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The surface of the new songs is glossy and tuneful, with bubbling synthesizers and knowingly retro echoes of the 1970s and ’80s. Behind the Cartoon Gorillaz, Damon Albarn Is a Man Alone 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Though banjos and mandolins had defined the band for years, the electric guitars and synthesizers suited large amphitheaters and big crowds. Mumford & Sons to open for U2 at CenturyLink Field 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z While pursuing the writer’s life in the small town of Towanda, Pa., in the mid-1970s, Ms. Thorington rented her first synthesizer for a children’s musical she wrote, “The Frog Hollow Ghost.” Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art to the Airwaves, Dies at 94 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z But strapping on a guitar or plugging in a vintage synthesizer is now becoming standard practice. New York Funny Songs Fest on Lower East Side 2012-05-31T20:41:24Z And it’s very digital, it’s a lot of synthesizers. The man behind the “Hamilton” sound: Hidden Beatles references, the “hip-hop horse” sample and why if “it’s all computerized, there’s no heart to it” 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z And “Still Comin’ ” leaves off on its rap for a while in the middle, giving itself over to a fantastic, buzzy, droning, cheap-sounding synthesizer solo that sounds like an Indian devotional song. Critics? Choice: New Music From Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson 2010-04-18T23:21:00Z "My father is a composer, and I was first drawn not to an acoustic piano but a synthesizer, which my father used for his compositional work." Daniil Trifonov, 24, is ready to make magic at Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z On “Coffee,” the album’s most irresistible track, he uses what sound like glockenspiel, analog synthesizer, maracas — and, building up to the chorus, a woodpeckerlike knocking. New Releases From Conor Oberst and Brantley Gilbert 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Perhaps most captivating is the sheer range of strange, delicate and piercing sounds the brilliant Bjarke Mogensen draws from the accordion; who needs synthesizers when you have this virtuoso in your ensemble? 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Cool little touches abound – the way the strings momentarily melt the escalating tension in "Under the Pressure," then recede; the way an almost subliminal saxophone undergirds "Red Eyes" while synthesizers whir in the distance. War on Drugs finds better chemistry 2014-03-07T20:07:00Z Early online response to “Odd Blood” has been largely, if guardedly, positive; indie bloggers do have a soft spot for synthesizers and dance beats. 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z The theme music, composed by Mr. Griffin, was updated using electronic synthesizers. Alex Trebek, Longtime Host of ‘Jeopardy!,’ Dies at 80 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z So you have airy, mellow and brash and — I don’t know what I would call a synthesizer. Fermenting Philip Glass: René Redzepi on Music and Cooking 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The difference between their 1970s duo concerts and this one was that Mr. Hancock and Mr. Corea both brought synthesizers onstage as well. Review: Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock on Two Grand Pianos at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z In other tracks, like “Because,” the synthesizer actually carries the song’s main melody, effectively replacing the band’s voices. The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in "Abbey Road" 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s more somber in themes and more textured in sound, with synthesizers, acoustic guitar and vocal chorales layered into the punk-minimalist blitz. Review | Japandroids deliver songs of fire and decay. With full-on audience participation. 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z With analog synthesizers and an arid drum sound, it’s designed for the dance floor, or for contemplation thereof. Playlist: Look Back at a Legend, Then Revisit Disco 2011-04-01T21:50:45Z Sumptuous layers of guitars, synthesizers and voices carry “Skyline,” but it, too, ends in foreboding: “Skyline waits for the fall.” Broken Social Scene Pits Creativity Against Collapse on ‘Hug of Thunder’ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Hancock describes the many keyboard instruments, synthesizers and other electronica that came to fascinate him. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’ Greg Davis, tucked into a corner with a modular synthesizer and a laptop computer, filled a wild-card role David Tudor played in the premiere. Music Review: ‘HPSCHD’ at Eyebeam 2013-05-05T21:28:37Z But it's funny because for a long time, I remember people would go, "Ah, it's just synthesizers. It was a very inauthentic period." ABC's Martin Fry on writing '80s love songs to be original: "It was kind of an act of rebellion" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z An instrumental album composed entirely on modular synthesizers, the 15 pieces within hum with oddly soothing tones and rhythms, like New Age music swimming through mystical Roger Dean-esque topographic oceans. 'At Long Last ASAP Rocky' a psychedelic trip through grief 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Or try the lauded new production of “eL/Aficionado,” a Robert Ashley opera driven by ominous synthesizer and a sense of powerlessness amid shadowy Cold War forces. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z It’s a snapshot of computer-mediated romantic estrangement — “I always thought I’d be the picture saved on your screen” — percolating along on staccato, programmed synthesizer tones and a skeletal version of a dance beat. The Playlist: New Songs From Prince and Garth Brooks, if You Can Find Them 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z His Yellow Magic Orchestra, which swept the charts in the late 1970s and early ’80s, produced catchy hits like “Computer Game” on synthesizers and sequencers, while also satirizing Western ideas of Japanese music. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Japanese Composer, Dies at 71 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z She tried one international crossover strategy: putting synthesizers and a common-denominator 4/4 club beat under one medley of hits. Music Review: Arena Full of Fans Caught Brazilian Fever and Had to Sing Along 2010-09-05T22:24:00Z They improvised in the vein of Carpenter’s pioneering movie soundtracks, which he composed and played on synthesizer. John Carpenter goes from behind the camera to center stage 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z The original version was accompanied by much late-Soviet-rock nonsense, like synthesizers and a sax solo. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z They were on the road for 50 hours straight, with Shpudeiko’s synthesizer between his legs. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The band is back to using synthesizers, after a three-album moratorium, and the squelchy disco sounds and vaguely Asian timbres add a haywire gloss to the proceedings. The Magnetic Fields ? love songs with a cynical undertow 2012-03-05T22:10:05Z Mr. Hays, stationed beside a rocky outcrop, was playing a Wurlitzer electric piano — refreshingly, given the day’s preponderance of battery-powered synthesizers — with an introspective focus that bordered on the perverse. Music Review: 30 Bands Perform in Jazz & Colors at Central Park 2012-11-11T22:52:39Z The second is the short documentary “Fantastic Man,” directed by Jake Sumner, in which it is told that Mr. Onyeabor amassed enough capital to acquire synthesizers and press his own records during that time. Music Review: The Songs of William Onyeabor, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-05-04T21:29:33Z The songs were mainly focused on mood, with rock instrumentation next to synthesizers, electronic drums, computer software and digital samplers. Capitol Hill's Cairo presents 'Vibrations' festival 2011-08-16T23:28:06Z Recognizable instruments, like a piano, stutter and grow displaced amid synthesizer chords and a trap beat like a distant rattlesnake, a vanishing memory of dancing together. The Playlist: Radiohead Returns, and Justin Timberlake Trolls the World 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Notes go half-time and double-time, drums hit on an arpeggiated beep, and the underlying bloated synthesizer melody is simultaneously creepy and relaxing. Friday Favorites: Kid Presentable, Concours d'Elegance, Keyboard Kid 2010-08-20T09:16:00Z Featuring a synthesizer and drum kit, it’s a difficult piece to balance. Béla Fleck Joins the Knights at Pace University Show 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z At 84, the musician and composer Terry Riley looks every bit the part of a synthesizer wizard. Terry Riley’s Avant-Garde Sounds Are Still Casting Spells 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Imagine the opening of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" but faster, with three female voices trading parts, sounding more like horns or synthesizers than anything human. Dirty Projectors adopt 14th-century musical style in eclectic Seattle set 2010-10-01T19:32:00Z That leads to a verse with melting synthesizer chords and a fidgety bass line: a sonic equivalent of the murky area between chatting and creepiness. Alex Lilly Keeps Her Cool, and Her Complexity on ‘2% Milk’ 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z “Love Me Harder,” the video of which debuted on Vevo this week, is both buoyant and thick, a rush of luxurious synthesizers and a humming heartbeat rhythm below. Essential tracks: New from Ariana Grande, Ariel Pink and more 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z It wanders from plinking bell tones and samples of hummed notes to hints of Japanese koto into drums and synthesizers that sound like the start of a big trance buildup. The Playlist: Beck Wows, the Avalanches Collapse and Kanye West Finds a Few Champions 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z They set up all their synthesizers in this booth, and it's a kind of cross between a shop and a jam session. The best pop for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:05Z The synthesizers gleam and sparkle but never swell to a satisfying thickness. Call Carly Rae Jepsen a Pop Star With Depth (Maybe) 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Amid a trend of electronic synthesizers, Williams insisted on recording with an orchestra, ultimately producing the iconic theme “Nightly” uses to this day. Network news music is the soundtrack to current events, but few know the composers behind it 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Nico Muhly took over the piano for the episodic Romantic surges of his “Drones and Piano” while Mr. Bartlett supplied the synthesizer drone. Music Review: How a Club Becomes a Salon for a Night 2011-01-16T22:12:45Z That idea came to the fore with Cohen’s extraordinary 1988 album “I’m Your Man,” a collection of woozy songs that drift through the absurdity of existence over a patina of cheap-sounding synthesizers. Eavesdropping on Leonard Cohen’s conversations with the void 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z In this piece, synthesizer and saxophone create piercing dissonances that are sustained to the point where sonic boundaries blur, throb and flicker. Review: Either/Or, at University Settlement, Is Inspired by Boredom and Writer’s Block 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Jenny Lewis recaptures a narcotic late-1960s Velvet Underground flavor — three chords sustained with drones, sitar and latter-day synthesizers — in “Unblu,” her collaboration with the Chicago rapper Serengeti. A Bittersweet Juice WRLD Team-Up, and 13 More New Songs 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Shaughnessy’s fourth book looks back at her own adolescence in the 1980s; the title is a play on the then-pervasive synthesizer — and of course, on synthesizing. The Best Poetry of 2016 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The keyboards often take on the guise of an organ, an instrument controversial in synagogue music, or emit the bleating sound of 1980s synthesizers. Music Review: ‘The Vienna Rite,’ by Judith Berkson, at Roulette 2012-11-05T19:43:03Z Its music, meanwhile, is almost merry: a melee of garage-rock guitar blasts and synthesizer swoops, treating overwork as a frantic buzz. On ‘OK Computer,’ Radiohead Saw the Future: Ours 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Wendy Carlos’s seminal synthesizer album “Switched-On Bach” led to her collaborations with Stanley Kubrick on “A Clockwork Orange” and “The Shining.” Female Composers Are Trying to Break Film’s Sound Barrier 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Timbaland discarded the original synthesizer bass line of “Do You Know Where Your Children Are” and came up with an odder, more arresting one that leaps way up and down. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z The fashion, the synthesizers, even the visual warp of TV tracking and dubbed tape. Video with commentary: "A Long Time" by Mayer Hawthorne 2011-08-05T18:06:05Z Mr. Hawking “spoke” briefly by way of his voice synthesizer. Music Review: World Science Festival Opens at Alice Tully Hall 2010-06-03T22:59:00Z These novelties, in turn, are connected backward in time often to ancient forces — and then forward to their cultural derivations, including synthesizers, computers and the internet. Steven Johnson on How Play Shaped the World 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Until now, the only available audio release of “Satyagraha” was a CBS Masterworks recording from 1985, which features synthesizers very prominently in the mix alongside the New York City Opera’s orchestra and chorus. A Jaw-Dropping Philip Glass Opera Is Finally on Video 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z But Banks has found a newer, richly compatible setting for her seething melancholy: the disembodied, suspended-time synthesizers of what has been labeled minimal R&B or future soul. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z This musical Frankenstein’s monster brought together pieces from three keyboards, a slew of synthesizers, control panels and a drum machine into a set of plexiglass modules. Don Lewis, Unsung Pioneer of Electronic Music, Dies at 81 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z And Mr. Angello, who has plenty of head-bobbing synthesizer tunes with Swedish House Mafia, set aside the trance recipes for a stretch of angular, accretive, rhythm-happy dance music beholden to no recipe. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival New York at MetLife Stadium 2012-05-21T03:57:17Z Two chords, a jumbo march beat, and a hall of mirrors of synthesizers, voices and changing reverb provide a heroic platform for self-questioning. The Playlist: Alessia Cara Grows Up, and 12 More New Songs 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The underlying structure of “A Good Look” is funky blues-rock, but its sliding synthesizers and nonstop bass line make it feel machine-driven. Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z On a track called “Grown Man” she even teasingly plays that card — “Are you wondering If I’m really old enough?” — over the album’s peppiest arrangement, built around vintage synthesizer loops. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-07T23:20:47Z Orchestras became fossilized, with modern instruments — be they saxophones or synthesizers — as occasional add-ons, not part of the permanent ensemble. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z They changed some of the melody, they changed a couple of words and they added all these synthesizers and things,’ ” he said in the Los Angles Times interview. Wayne Carson, songwriter who penned ballad ‘Always on My Mind,’ dies at 72 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Columbia Records was hoping to cash in on the success of the 1968 album “Switched-On Bach,” a synthesizer take on the classical composer, but it wasn’t sure how to market the new record. He Made Kids’ Music and Albums About Lucifer. Now His Work Is a Rock Opera. 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z “It’s lucky we had a synthesizer in the big orchestral version,” he said. An opera revisited, on a new scale 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The particular nuances of the craft — treating samples, programming synthesizers and precisely mixing sounds, to say nothing of the requisite old-fashioned songwriting — often get sidelined in discussions about DJ paychecks or the ever-expanding festival culture. Richie Hawtin's CNTRL series lifts the hood on how EDM is made and played 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Musically "Thinkin Bout You" is mild but effective, faded drums and synthesizers like anesthetic, very of-the-moment, very Drake, merging R&B with electronic dance music and ambient styles. Summer of Frank Ocean: 'Thinkin Bout You' 2012-07-19T17:19:31Z A group of children arrived and in a surreal scene, started dancing with Haack’s associate Esther Nelson to the burbles and gurgles erupting from the prehistoric synthesizers. He Made Kids’ Music and Albums About Lucifer. Now His Work Is a Rock Opera. 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Broken Bells determinedly reconstructed an analog era steeped in wistful memories, using sliding synthesizer lines, Kraut-rock bass tones and primitive drum machines. New Music: New CDs From Broken Bells, Toni Braxton and Babyface 2014-02-03T22:25:14Z Instead synthesizers and percussion play musical styles that are almost futuristic, creating an atonal dissonance between what we’re seeing and hearing. The Knick: scalpel-sharp second season cuts away at Mad Men's status 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Throughout, synthesizers are fat and forward but also squiggly and backgroundy. Friday Favorites: Truckasauras, The Skins, Unnatural Helpers 2010-03-26T18:44:00Z One was Dee Alexander, from Chicago, who sang standards and semicosmic originals, turning her voice into birdsong or a synthesizer or a Tibetan monk chant. Critic’s Notebook: Festival, Now 59, Welcomes Several Generations 2013-08-05T21:42:43Z Made by Native Instruments, it's a synthesizer plug-in that sits in a producer's laptop or digital audio workstation and allows him or her to slather different synth-textures together to make the sickest, slimiest bassline. How rave music conquered America 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z Its urban soundscape is uncluttered and unhurried, floating in the midrange over a simple beat, and its long wordless coda launches an extended synthesizer line to soar overhead. Florian Schneider’s 10 Essential Songs, in Kraftwerk and Beyond 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Early in her career in the 1960s, Ms. Oliveros avidly adopted cutting-edge technologies, working with magnetic tape and prototype synthesizers at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. Pauline Oliveros, Composer Who Championed ‘Deep Listening,’ Dies at 84 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z She was sitting in her home studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in a vintage wool sweater, Oak jeans and lavender cashmere socks, surrounded by analog synthesizers and boxes of ’80s techno tapes. Up Close: Talking With Veronica Vasicka, Founder of Minimal Wave 2012-04-11T21:05:26Z Reinvention has long been a dog-eared page in the rock band playbook, and “trade guitars for synthesizers” might be the most underlined statement on the page. New Music: Albums From Wye Oak and Sd Laika 2014-04-28T21:13:32Z The other Andriessen work, “Odysseus’ Women,” for four female voices and synthesizer, draws its text from Homer’s descriptions of Odysseus’s amorous adventures during his long journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Review: When Anaïs Met Circe, and Other Operatic Adventures 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Tom Petty, who died this week at 66, was a student and a synthesizer of the rock of the 1960s — both the poppy and the rootsy kind. Tom Petty, a Secret Punk on Rock’s Mount Rushmore 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z He remains a calm synthesizer of styles for an era in which old borders matter less than ever. Post Malone and Pop’s Single Sound 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z There is a spirit to trap music, a genre of Southern hip-hop known for its 808 drum bass and layered synthesizers. This yoga instructor’s secret to more inclusive classes: Trap music 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z But you also wonder whether the musicians known for experimenting with synthesizers and drum machines in the early 1980s are satisfied playing strictly to the converted. ZZ Top at the Greek: 5 thoughts on the band's show 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z He played a guitar synthesizer for a few years in the 1980s and early ’90s, but eventually abandoned it. John Abercrombie, Lyrical Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 72 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z In the first movement a synthesizer produced a junk-box ruckus worthy of Spike Jones. Music Review: Louis Andriessen, Composing Under the Radar 2010-04-19T22:18:00Z She will feature guitars and accordions — along with synthesizers and hip-hop beats. Singer Lila Downs on death, chocolate and a new album that riffs on both 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z She uses pop tools instead — synthesizers, drum machines, cheerfully symmetrical melodies — as Sad13, with an album due Nov. 11. The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z The lyrics do suggest Martin’s trying to escape ghosts in his past, but he surrounds his singing with the digital drone of synthesizers and never digs too deep to describe his heartache. Love, loss and lots of synthesizers from Coldplay 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z On “Salt Skin” Mr. Cooke temporarily left his bank of synthesizers to pound on a bass drum. Music Review: Sweet, Ecstatic, Petulant and in Control 2010-10-04T21:07:00Z Elsewhere there are echoes of the E Street Band’s sustained synthesizers and arena-scale marches. Review: The Strumbellas Show Off Roots Both Dark and Sunny on ‘Hope’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z In 1977 she released a hit that served as a precursor to modern techno music entitled “I Feel Love,” which made her among the first female artists to use synthesizers in a recording. Legendary ?Queen of Disco? Donna Summer Dies at 63 2012-05-17T17:34:52Z He recorded a string of solo synthesizer records in the 1980s for Japanese labels. Masabumi Kikuchi Dies at 75; Jazz Pianist Embraced Individualism 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z In the same way that Young Thug, a similarly brilliant mutant synthesizer, spawned his own school in Atlanta, there is a post-Greedo class of Los Angeles. 03 Greedo has spent the last two years in a Texas prison but is still the beating heart of L.A.’s rap scene 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z “I’ve been living in small apartments for 15 years,” Lange explained, as studio equipment rolled by: vintage synthesizers, an antique piano — the foundations of Helado Negro’s soothing, celestial lullabies. Helado Negro at the End of the World 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Expect acoustic and electric music, including new work and some old favorites, plus the sound of Corea’s legendary Fender Rhodes sampled through his current synthesizer. Two jazz piano greats and a women’s jazz festival 2013-04-25T22:06:43Z The Electronic Music Studio, an English synthesizer manufacturer and designer, has devised a new "sound" for Todd's guitar, the "Popeye Mutilator". Todd Rundgren: 'What I'm doing isn't even really music' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-13T13:01:33Z He produced the likes of Blondie and David Bowie, and pushed dance music into the synthesizer era alongside Donna Summer on “I Feel Love.” Meet the godfather of electronic dance music: Giorgio Moroder’s spectacular return to the spotlight 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z The percolating grooves of her songs fused mutuashi rhythms with salsa, Congolese soukous and other African and Caribbean rhythms, deploying synthesizers and horns alongside traditional percussion. Tshala Muana, Congolese Singer With Danceable Messages, Dies at 64 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z For his set, which was essentially one long, mostly improvised composition, Mr. Lopatin primarily played a synthesizer routed through a sea of effects pedals, holding fatty notes until they bent or became distended. Music Review: Floating and Bobbing in an Oceanic Swell of Sound 2010-08-30T21:58:00Z The oldest songs are only on the deluxe version and the Baltimore-style synthesizer jabs are less of a novelty, though they still pump up the songs. Playlist: New CDs: From Rye Rye, Maga Bo, Sigur Ros and Cold Specks 2012-05-25T21:06:59Z Beneath all that lie Mr. Riggins’s own synthesizer melodies and his programmed or live drum-set beats, slow and deep with delayed groove. Pop: New Releases from Saxophone Players and Drummers 2012-10-07T05:10:06Z He also composed a compact but vital group of orchestral pieces and an enduring series of works for synthesizer, often in combination with voices or acoustic instruments. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z At that time, Mr. Brown, who is now 56, recorded the songs using synthesizers in his tiny studio. The Many Sides to Dan Brown 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Cowley’s formative synthesizer compositions had been set to explicit films in the early 1980s and were rarely heard outside of that context. Waking the Spirit of a Disco Innovator 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z They farmed out more drum parts to remote recording, but Andress removed some of them, making rhythm a rippling, implied presence; synthesizers mingle with that most molten of traditional country instruments, steel guitar. Ingrid Andress, a Nashville Outsider Who Paved Her Own Path In 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z He was eager to juxtapose the multileveled intricacy of his piano improvisations with quacking, wriggling synthesizer tones, hopping between profundity and comedy. Music Review: Herbie Hancock at Rose Theater 2012-03-11T22:05:23Z Over the years Mr. Horn performed all over the world, recorded with accompaniment ranging from synthesizers to killer whales, and was nominated for several Grammys. Paul Horn, a Founding Father of New Age Music, Dies at 84 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Moog Music is riding a resurgence of interest in analog synthesizer sounds, which are more complex and unpredictable — and often rawer — than the smoother digital tones that became fashionable in the 1980s. Critic’s Notebook: Moogfest 2014 Unfolds in Asheville, N.C. 2014-04-28T22:13:11Z Mr. Buchla disliked the term “synthesizer,” which suggested to him a synthetic imitation of existing sounds. Don Buchla, Inventor, Composer and Electronic Music Maverick, Dies at 79 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z With the decline of punk and disco in 1981, British and American new-wave artists filled the gap with songs driven by synthesizers and programmed dance beats. The Story Behind Joe Jackson’s ‘Steppin’ Out’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z It’s a sound cycle of fitful synthesizers making a dense but simple sonic tableau. The Case for New Age Music as American Folk Art 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z It was a visceral alternative in an era when major labels were investing in ostentatious filigrees like gated reverb and prohibitively expensive synthesizers. Glen ‘Spot’ Lockett: The Punk Producer’s 10 Essential Recordings 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Do drunk art students shouting over cheap synthesizers still quicken your pulse? This week's new singles 2011-07-22T23:07:26Z It’s got a synthesizer and an electric guitar and it’s a lot for the singers to get over; it requires a different approach from the singers. Cuts, Big and Small, Transform Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z It was an incantation, not a dance tune; with Mr. N’Dour’s voice sailing over synthesizer chords, it was both mystical and contemporary. Youssou N’Dour Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z A wave of noise opens the album, synthesizers spazzing out in “On Sight” as West rises, “a monster about to come alive again.” Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen 2013-06-16T20:37:00Z Controlling synthesizer functions with microprocessors, it could play five notes at once, allowing harmonies. Dave Smith, Whose Synthesizers Shaped Electronic Music, Dies at 72 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Judging by a few preliminary listens, Seattle duo Beat Connection 's new "Surf Noir" EP is mostly instrumental synthesizer/programmed drums headphone music sometimes overlayed with indie pop vocals. Download this: local act Beat Connection's "Surf Noir" EP 2010-07-13T21:13:00Z When they were ready to briefly retreat from synthesizers, they would release a string quartet- and marching band-indebted album titled “Indiscreet,” which flopped fantastically. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z It's a real beauty, consisting of mathematically-organized synthesizers that cluster and stab like acupuncture. Truckasauras' 'Bothell Trance,' Barboza concert June 28 2012-06-20T17:51:07Z Starting in 2014, Phoenix took over a space on the top floor, where they installed synthesizers and recording gear and got to work. Phoenix’s New Album Arrives in a Darker World, but the Beat Goes On 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z She blended her own musical forays on synthesizer with audio snippets of industrial or nature sounds, unaccompanied improvisations by musicians on various instruments, and samples from radio broadcasts. Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art to the Airwaves, Dies at 94 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Its sweeping instrumentation recalls bands like Yes and concept albums like Rick Wakeman’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” but set to a throbbing disco beat and punctuated with warbly outer-space synthesizer effects. ‘War of the Worlds’ Shape-Shifts Onto the London Stage 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z In the way of a great orchestral composer, he will introduce a particular synthesizer voice very faintly in the greater swarm, bringing it in gradually. Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points Meet in the Atmosphere 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The release features him conducting his own score, "Emergence," for piano, synthesizer and orchestra, as well as four other works by Icelandic composers. A 'beast' of new Icelandic music will premiere tonight at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z "It’s a great loss to the synthesizer or electronic music community. " Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese dead at 70 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The sound tools here mimic electronic music, like components in a synthesizer. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Back in Brixton that night, as Mr. Carey sweated over a Swarmatron synthesizer, which diffuses one note into eight, Ms. Tempest interspersed poems from “Hold Your Own” with songs from “Everybody Down.” Kate Tempest, a British Triple Threat, Crosses the Pond 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The ensemble was joined by David Friend and Oliver Hagen, who performed the piano and synthesizer parts. Review: ‘Surface Tension,’ Inspired by the Met’s Percussive Collection 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z I think he was responding to the weightless, chilly feel of Rog's synthesizers. Snow jams by Renton producer 10.4 Rog 2010-11-23T21:57:00Z Beginning with a synthesizer throb in free tempo, it gathered a rolling fervor with a tenor solo that felt both tempestuous and prayerful. Review: Donny McCaslin’s Quartet, Fresh Off the Release of Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z There’s a call for solidarity in “Reach Out,” another march: “The darkness is winning again,” Tucker sings, amid blipping synthesizers that hint at Tame Impala. Sleater-Kinney Grasps at a New Sound on ‘The Center Won’t Hold’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z He taught himself to program modular synthesizers — the ones with the big switchboard-operator patch bays. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z He put down Fender Rhodes chords for color, finally playing a spacey synthesizer solo that owed as much of its phrasing and harmony to Philip Glass as Herbie Hancock. Review | Chris Potter’s Circuits Trio made a splash at Blues Alley — with jaw-dropping moments from James Francies 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The six songs of Mr. Dargel’s “Hold Yourself Together” matched his cool, measured vocals and vulnerable or rueful lyrics with Wil Smith’s playfully Baroque synthesizer lines and James Moore’s mannerly guitar. Music Review: Fragments of Egyptian Statuary Set Stage for Songs of Fragmentation 2011-01-24T22:37:30Z The Castanets cast "Maggie's Farm" in some modern percussion and synthesizer sounds. Project uses indie artists to introduce Dylan 2010-10-04T16:43:00Z Because I have one in my synthesizer collection at home, and they make me laugh. The Darkness's Justin Hawkins: 'Contrary to expectations, you'd never catch me dogging' 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z Switching between synthesizers and a guitar run through filters, he created full-bodied beds for the songs. Music Review: In Thrall to the 1980s: Put 16 Candles on That Hunk of Frosted Yearning 2011-03-03T23:00:06Z For most of the album Mr. Hodge plays all the instruments — electric bass, acoustic piano, synthesizers, drum programming — with an emphasis on color and mood. The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z They brought their synthesizers but quickly realized that their pianos spoke together much better. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z You were sort of left with the collected motifs of a born cultural synthesizer, rather than the clear direction of a designer. On the Runway: Catty Women at Givenchy 2011-03-07T08:22:38Z Of course science also provided the computers and synthesizers that generate the sounds on “Fragrant World.” New Music: Music From Yeasayer, Tamia, Lionel Loueke and Divine Fits 2012-08-27T21:53:22Z Kindness sings wistfully and woozily and beneath him the music is moving purposefully, with robust snares and hazy synthesizers. Critic?s Notebook: Ital and Kindness, Indie Acts Moving to a Disco Beat 2012-03-20T22:16:48Z “Oh yes, a Tibetan nun and a synthesizer,” he lamented to Roots World. David Lewiston, Who Recorded Indigenous Music Far and Wide, Dies at 88 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Working with Soccer Mommy, he used reverb, distortion, synthesizer tones and guitar feedback, at every volume level from subliminal to overpowering, to create backdrops that can easily warp from sumptuous to menacing. Soccer Mommy Summons a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Feelings 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Guys in makeup playing synthesizers and singing about sex and philosophy, that’s what I needed. Writing family stories: Jason Tougaw on his memoir 'The One You Get' 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Though a groundbreaking synthesizer record, “Nommos” was originally intended to be orchestral, but Mr. Leon didn’t have the budget. Craig Leon Rerecords Two Synth Classics 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z On the album’s title tune, the bass line jounces from major to minor and then back again, as Mr. Mergia skates above it on organ and synthesizer and Fender Rhodes. An African Funk Pioneer Gets a Second Chance on a Global Stage 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Over a murky, oozy track with synthesizer chords that climb patiently only to fall back to where they started, Masego sings about “Looking like you’re in disguise every day/Breathing my own breath.” Beyoncé’s Anthem for the Unique, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The handclapping in the first verse was us clapping, not a synthesizer. The Story Behind the Cars’ ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z |
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