The Ondes Martenot was first popularized way back in 1928. This entry on our list of bizarre electronic instruments, invented by one Maurice Martenot, was a type of monophonic keyboard. It’s not ...

A concert grand piano, an early analog synthesizer, a drum set, and a clarinet could hardly look less alike. Yet, functionally, the digital electronic versions of all these instruments can share a ...

Despite common misconceptions, electronic music dates back quite far, to the mid-19th century. Let’s take a look at its early beginnings and some key moments that have shaped the history of electro.

An unassuming warehouse off Route 63 in Harleysville contains one of the world’s largest collections of vintage electronic music gear, crammed with amps, synthesizers, guitar pedals, mixing boards, ...

OHM+'s first disc contains music from the earliest days of recorded electronic music, and as much as you might expect it to contain barely controlled squeaks and static, there are moments of ...

The music critic Harold Schonberg claims that the theremin sound is like “a cello lost in dense fog, crying because it does not know how to get home”. There are many different type of Theremin.