Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and ‘AI’

The legendary composer is celebrating 40 years of Music Mouse, which brought algorithmic composition to home computers.
Under the Radar

Not Like Everybody Else

The album’s artwork made it seem like the soundtrack to some long-begone late ’60s horror or exploitation film. The material, meanwhile, consisted of ’60s garage and psych classics such as The Isley ...
Discover Wildlife

This haunting sound was captured near Bermuda in 1949. It's the oldest known whale song recording

Archivists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have uncovered the earliest known whale song recording, taken almost 80 ...
Wallpaper*

Inside Danny L Harle’s Cerulean dreamscape

New album Cerulean sees the electronic musician exploring isolation through sculptural sets, solitary video game mechanics ...
Louder

“Pretentious, perhaps. But let’s call it pioneering instead”: Peter Gabriel called it “knock and knowall” – but five decades on, here’s why we still like Genesis ...

Surreal imagery, crediting classic poets and philosophers, trying to scare each other with freak-out jams, inspiration from mime artists… it’s without doubt the most adventurous music any member the b ...