SYNTH WEEK 2024: As one of the originators of the genre, at least in its electronic form, it’s hard to argue with Eno’s suggestion that ambient music should be as "ignorable as it is interesting", but ...

Japanese synthesizer manufacturer Sonicware has updated the firmware for the Liven Ambient 0. The new software version for the synthesizer specializing in ambient soundscapes, which was released in ...

The next synth in the Japanese manufacturer's super-affordable LIVEN series is billed as a "deeply expressive tool for composing cinematic ambient and post-classical music" When you purchase through ...

Ambient techno is a form of music which has, you might be surprised to read, been around for decades. Initially known as just 'ambient' music, the techno element was added as the original genre ...

Host Scott Detrow talks with Pitchfork editor Andy Cush about ambient music and the growth in popularity of marketing it as so-called mood music on streaming platforms. And finally today, to create a ...

Last year on Halloween night at the Blue Starlite Drive-In, Nosferatu awakened from his coffin to Dallas Acid drummer Linda Beecroft scraping her fingers across the rim of a gong. Her two bandmates ...

I first discovered ambient music in college, when I was a late-night d.j. My show at the campus radio station started every Thursday at midnight and ran until five. From midnight through two-thirty, I ...

Getting into electronic music is a breeze these days with all the great iOS apps out there. Ripplemaker, for example, is a fantastic modular synth app that even newbies can use, while veteran ...

Though many of us can carry a synthesizer is our pockets courtesy of the ubiquitous smartphone and one of many music creation apps, a good number of sonic scientists prefer the real thing. Pint-sized ...

If you like working, sleeping, relaxing or meditating to ambient music — and you own an iPhone — you’re in luck. You can now play background tunes from Control Center on your iPhone. The feature is ad ...