Who doesn’t love the synthesizer? Once considered the newest, hippest piece of tech to enter the world of music, this electronic musical instrument has evolved and changed quite a bit through the ...

Synth-pop from the 1980s makes for the perfect tool when you want (or need) a heavy dose of nostalgia. There’s something about a keyboard and the relentless rhythm of a drum machine that amplifies the ...

'80s Week: After Hollywood’s years of experimenting with electronic music, a new invention changed the sound of cinema. When Alfred Hitchcock fired the composer behind “Vertigo” and “Psycho” over ...

Dave Smith, an engineer who helped create the Prophet-5 synthesizer, which became a staple of 1980s pop music, as well as the MIDI electronic system that allowed drum machines, keyboards, sequencers — ...

Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we may never know of its existence due to the cacophony of all of the various keytars, drum machines, and other ...

Alan R. Pearlman, the engineer who founded the synthesizer company ARP Instruments and designed its pioneering equipment, died on Jan. 5 in Newton, Mass. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his ...

Her blindness, she said, enhanced her music, which included homemade recordings from the 1980s prized by aficionados. By Neil Genzlinger In the early 1980s, a blind woman stood in her San Francisco ...