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The Market for Musical Gear Is Amping Up Like Never Before Bloomberg 4 days ago Jonathan Roeder (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The numbers are in, and the pandemic has officially turbocharged the market for musical equipment: Online retailer Sweetwater reported record growth last year, surpassing $1 billion in sales; Fender Musical Instruments signed up 900,000 users for its Play lessons app. Popular Searches The action has been especially pronounced in the secondhand market. David Mandelbrot, chief executive officer of online marketplace Reverb.com LLC, says there’s been a ...

The Quietus , February 20th, 2021 09:12 For half a century, synthesizer design has been dominated by the piano keyboard, but things could have gone another way. Author of a new book for Velocity Press called Synthesizer Evolution, Oli Freke takes a look at some of the roads not taken by electronic music All images by Oli Freke Synth manufacturers have pursued the perfection of electronic music for more than half a century, but in so doing they have arguably sidelined the hitherto wild-west nature of electronic instruments. Since the invention of the modern synthesizer, the majority of manufa...

The new documentary tells the story of the roles women played — and continue to play — in the creation and development of electronic music, from theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore to today.

The new documentary tells the story of the roles women played — and continue to play — in the creation and development of electronic music, from theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore to today.

January 20, 2021 10:23 am Pentagram partners Sascha Lobe and Yuri Suzuki have designed the new identity for the Musical Instrumental Digital Interface (MIDI), based on musical forms and frequency waves. The work includes a new logo (static and sonic), sound design, video and motion graphics as well as typography. MIDI is used by musicians, producers and DJs as a way to create and share musical work. Before MIDI technology, there was no standardised way of synchronising electronic musical instruments from different companies. In the early 1980s, Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi and Sequentia...