Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

The sound of effects and equalization can be hard to translate into engineering terms. For example, what sort of EQ should you use to get a “fat” sound or a “thin” sound? Does your station sound ...

The urge to reinvent the norm and defy convention is intrinsic to electronic music's culture. Even at the very dawn of the electronic music age, inventors sought new and novel ways to use the ...