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Pauline Anna Strom, who expanded synth music's color palette in the 1980s, died in December at 74. The posthumous album em Angel Tears in Sunlight /em , out Feb. 19, is her first in over 30 years. On the cover of Pauline Anna Strom's 1982 debut, a Dali-esque eye hatches from a skyborn egg, framed by a rainbow wrapped around the cosmos. The image, painted by Richard "Karma" Moffett, sits against a plateau of perfect white; ornate calligraphic text is superimposed at the top and bottom, powder blue like the atmosphere. Like that visual introduction, the alias under which Strom recorded, Trans-...

Sequential Prophet-5 & Prophet-10 A conquering hero returns to the fray after long years in exile. Does the new Prophet Rev 4 still have the power to take on the world? Great excitement here at Stewart HQ as a courier drops off an eagerly anticipated package. No reflection on the UPS delivery service, but I’ve been waiting 20 years for this: since reluctantly putting my beloved Prophet‑5 analogue synth out to pasture in 2001 I’d lived in hope of finding a suitable replacement but, despite some promising leads, it never happened. Then out of the blue last summer, an email from the ma...

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...

Synthesized drum roll, please: Roland back on the bourse in Tokyo Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you're not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ Kyodo Dec 16, 2020 Roland Corp., a Japanese electronic musical instrument-maker, returned to the Tokyo stock market Wednesday, about six years after delisting due to structural reforms. Roland finished its first day of trading on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange at ¥2,920 ($28.20), 5.8% below its IPO price of ¥3,100. The company was valued a...