Today’s electronic musician has high expectations, taking digital synthesis, sampling and hard-disk recording for granted. Forty years ago, such hackneyed technologies were virtually unknown, but ...

This fascinating programme begins with Ruth is Sleeping, originally written by Frank Zappa for the Synclavier sampling keyboard and later arranged by Ali N Askin for two pianists at either one or two ...

Beginning as a project intended to employ the power of Dartmouth’s in-house computer system to facilitate FM synthesis, the Synclavier was the brainchild of software programmer and student Sydney A ...