Access Music has published an interview with Hans Zimmer, in conjunction with the release of Dark Knight.
There’s a lot of synth discussion throughout the interview, but a couple things caught my eye:
Do you remember your first exposure to electronic music
Yes, at school someone had brought in Switched on Bach and I thought it was [...]

Says cinnamonjuly: “I plugged up my Bleeplabs Thingamagoop to my EMS Synthi and it immediately started using the Synthi as some kind of weird transmitter to contact home.”

Cynthia is a free Windows VSTi/VST inspired by the classic EMS Synthi A.
Specifications (like Synthi A):

3 oscillators with controls for shape and level of the waveforms

OSC1: Range from 0.6 Hz to 16 kHz, sine and triangle
OSC2: Range from 0.6 Hz to 16 kHz, square and triangle
OSC3: Range from 0.015 Hz to 500 Hz, square and [...]

Tristram Cary, composer, electroacoustic pioneer and synth designer, died April 24.
His contribution to concert and entertainment musical repertoire in every genre from pure electronic music to instrumental solos and orchestral and choral works covers the entire second half of the 20th century.
Bio
Cary was born in Oxford on 14th May 1925. He served in the Royal [...]

Film teaser for the documentary What The Future Sounded Like - the story of the Electronic Music Studios and their impact on music history.

EMS calls itself the “Longest Established Synthesizer Manufacturer”. We’re not sure if that’s proper English, but EMS is an English company, so they ought to know.
Electronic Music Studios was created in 1969 by Dr. Peter Zinovieff to sell equipment arising from his interests in music applications of computers and electronics. EMS created many products that [...]