For half a century, synthesizer design has been dominated by the piano keyboard, but things could have gone another way. Author of a new book for Velocity Press called Synthesizer Evolution, Oli Freke takes a look at some of the roads not taken by electronic music
Annette Peacock is a stone cold original - an innovator, an outlier, authentically sui generis. John Doran talks to her about the timely reissue of Revenge - an album she recorded in 1968 that still sounds fresh now. With thanks to Cindy Stern
Ahead of performances of Thar Farraige (Over Sea) in Bradford and London for the New Music Biennial, Patrick Clarke speaks to composer Linda Buckley and musicians The Maxwell Quartet and Brìghde Chaimbeul about the work's blending of Irish and Scottish music, its guiding themes of migration and connection to place, and more