Music, Makers & Machines – A Tech Nerd

Inventors, developers, innovators

Top of the drops

Changing the sound of music

Legendary synthesizers in 3D

Bring them to your living room in Augmented Reality

Spotlight on: ARP

The machines

Forgotten instruments

Bringing playback forward

Sonic institutions

The legendary studios

Where was the world's first studio for electronic music?

Kompakt

House music all life long

Innervisions

The History of Innervisions

Tune in and and fade out

Kitsuné

The studio of all studios

The sound of the future

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Inventors, developers, innovators

The pioneers behind the technologies and sound

Top of the drops

The classic synthesizers behind 10 iconic tracks

What's That Sound?

The instruments and techniques behind some of the most memorable electronic music of the past 50 years

Changing the sound of music

How Moog conquered electronic music

Minimoog

The birth of a legendary instrument

Evolution of Moog Synthesizers

1964-2002

Moog Pioneers

Music and album art from foundational artists

The Moog IIIp

What this iconic synthesizer has to do with the Beatles

Legendary synthesizers in 3D

Spotlight on: ARP

The legacy of Alan R. Pearlman

Who Was Alan R. Pearlman?

A brief biography of the inventor

The ARP 2600

The metamorphosis of an iconic instrument

ARP in the 1970s

From jazz to funk, ARP inspired the world's top musicians

The ARP 2500

ARP's first synthesizer and its impact on the music industry

The History of ARP Design

From era to era

The machines

Sound production and man-machine interaction

Forgotten instruments

The hidden treasures of sound creation

The Theremin

A unique instrument with a lot of history

Trautonium

The legacy of Oskar Sala

Telharmonium

The world's first synthesizer

Keith Humble’s Optronic Workstation

Featuring the EMS VCS-1

Acousmonium

The contact point between music and audience

The First Electronic Music Instruments

A brief overview by Philharmonie de Paris

From Polychord to Thowiphon

A look into the cabinet of curiosities

Transaudio

The story of an early Melbourne synthesiser

Ernst Krenek's Buchla

An altar to electronic music

Motorola Scalatron

EMEAPP's microtonal monsters

Bringing playback forward

How digitial music came into the forefront

The History of the MP3

A game-changing invention

Sonic institutions

The science of sound

Any Sound from Anywhere

Explore EMPAC's Ambisonics, Wave Field Synthesis and Speaker Domes

Spatialization

Experience the total surrounding of sound by ZKM Karlsruhe's Klangdom

The legendary studios

Where science and artistic innovation come together

Kompakt

Discover more about the legendary label from Cologne

Total Confusion

Shaping Cologne's nightlife from 1998-2006

The History of Kompakt

From record shop to publishing house

Kompakt Vinyls

From Wolfgang Voigt to DJ Koze

Essential Kompakt Releases

12 inches and artworks

House music all life long

The story of Defected Records

Defected Records

Passionately Independent

Innervisions