In his book Idoru William Gibson predicted something very like Hatsune Miku in the video above. We've known for some time that this was coming. I remember reading an article in Rolling Stone magazine in 1978 about John Chowning, the founder of the CCRMA and the inventor of FM synthesis. (read more)

Most musicians I know bemoan the current state of recording technology when it comes to the so-called "loudness wars." This refers to the digital tools engineers now have which allow them to make a recording sound louder through compression and limiting (read more)

If you are a musician who suffers hearing loss as I have, your first thought is "it's all over; I'm done." And that was my first thought when I woke up one morning in 2010 and realized that I could no longer hear high frequencies out of my left ear (read more)