Interviews

Jessica Vale is a multimedia artist based in New York city. Her debut CD, The Sex Album, features eleven tracks made from the sounds of recorded sex, manipulated into melodies, beats and ambience.
In the first part of this interview, Vale talked about The Sex Album, and what led her to make it.
In part two of [...]

Podcasting is a new technology that’s becoming popular among owners of iPods and other portable media players. Podcasts are a way of automating the delivery of audio content to portable audio player. Mark Rushton is a electronic musician that’s jumped into the world of podcasting. Rushton is based out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but he [...]

Oscar-winning composer Vangelis talks in his first UK interview in over 10 years about working with a difficult Oliver Stone on Alexander, his approach to music and more.
Alexander has opened to reviews that could be called “mixed” at best. Vangelis’ Alexander soundtrack, though, finds Vangelis at his peak. Vangelis mixes electronics, orchestra and exotic instrumentation [...]

Electro-acoustic music pioneer Barry Schrader’s works for tape, dance, film, video, mixed media, live/electro-acoustic music combinations, and real-time computer performance have been presented throughout the world. Schrader is the founder and first president of SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States). He is also the author of the book Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music.
Schrader [...]

Jan Hammer is a multi-talented musician and composer who has achieved success as a jazz-rock artist, composer, and electronic music innovator.
His career has spanned over three decades, and with each decade he has successfully reinvented his music. In the sixties, he worked as a keyboardist and conductor with jazz great Sarah Vaughan. In the seventies, [...]

DJ Lisa Lashes, sometimes known as the Queen of Hard House, is one of the top DJs in the world. With her mix albums and busy schedule of performances, she has attracted a global following.
Lisa is the first and only female to be considered among the top ten DJs in the world by DJ Magazine, [...]

Moog, an upcoming documentary on the life and work of Dr. Robert Moog, is scheduled for release in September. The movie explores Moog’s collaborations with musicians over the years, and his ideas about creativity, design, interactivity and spirituality. A preview is now available.
The feature documentary film, by filmmaker/musician Hans Fjellestad was shot on location in [...]

Eric Barbour is a world authority on using vacuum-tubes in audio devices, and is the first person to apply the ideas pioneered with early synthesizers to tube-based devices. His company, Metasonix, makes tube-based synthesizer modules that are completely unique.
Barbour describes his modules as brain destroying, meaty, bizarre, crude, nasty, powerful and evil.  He warns that [...]

Jered Flickinger is the designer behind Future Retro’s line of electronic music instruments, including the FR-777, Mobius sequencer, and the Revolution “concept synthesizer”. Though his company is small, his instruments are very respected and have been used by top electronica acts, including Nine Inch Nails, BT, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Aphex Twin, Plastikman, [...]

Hypnotique is a multi-talented artist that incorporates the theremin, one of the earliest electronic music instruments, into much of her work. She has many guises, working professionally as a multi-instrumental musician, actress, performance artists, radio producer and music educator.
In this exclusive interview, Hypnotique talks about her work, making it as an alternative musician, the sensuality [...]

Resonance FM will be broadcasting Switched On…In Conversation with Bob Moog live Thursday, July 29th: 7 - 8.30pm (UK). The broadcast will also be available as streaming audio from www.resonancefm.com.
Switched On meets 70-year-old synthesizer guru Dr. Bob Moog, the inventor of the trademark Moog synthesizer, now enjoying a cult revival. They discuss his instruments, which [...]

Cynthia Webster is the synthesist and designer behind Cyndustries, a company that makes modular analog synthesizers. She recently shared her thoughts with Synthtopia about a variety of topics, including the analog vs. digital debate, Nietzsche, women in electronic music, the mystery of “wishbone127″  and even banana envy.
Webster is an electronic music veteran. In high school, Webster [...]

Electronica duo Cherry Bikini, Sophie Boscallini and Armand Abagliani, specialize in sexy dance music that pushes buttons and pushes limits. Their music is catchy dance electronica, in the vein of Soft Cell, Basement Jaxx, Goldfrapp, and Lords of Acid. They describe it as “cosmopolitan electronica for the whole world.”
Their songs often deal with sexuality with [...]

Kompressor makes music that is a strange blend of industrial electronics, children song lyrics, and even rap. If Kraftwerk, Chris and Cosey, and the Childrens Television Workshop got together to make music, it might sound something like Kompressor. Or it might not.
Kompressor is artist Andreas K, right. According to the Kompressor site, he was born [...]