I have found a number of vintage and more recent recordings of electronic music that deal with the ups and downs of being in love. I have curated these for your listening pleasure.

There is a hidden seam of recordings in my archive of electronic music intended for babies which I am presenting here. It is also a great excuse to share with you some unique electronic music produced by one of the founding fathers of ambient and sequenced electronic sounds, Raymond Scott.

This podcast is the second of two parts on tape music from Canada. In this episode we cover the period from 1974 to 1992 with representative sounds from women and men composers.

This podcast is the first of two parts on electronic music from Canada. In this episode, we cover the early era spanning the years 1955 to 1972 and the women and men who composed music on magnetic tape.

For this episode, I’ve created a sound collage by remixing fragments of audio tracks from a selection of educational and instructional records found in my archive. Most of the recordings are from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

This podcast is the second of a two-part series in which we’re listening to examples of electronic keyboards in jazz. In this episode, we’ll begin around the time of the Fender Rhodes and explore various keyboards up until 1979 which is capped by the use of a wide variety of analog synthesizers.

This episode is the first of two parts covering the use of electronic keyboards in jazz. This part covers the early history of recordings from 1938 to the late sixties. Seven such instruments went out of fashion in jazz as the electronic organ and piano gained popularity. These included the Hammond Novachord, the Ondes Martenot, the Hammond Solovox, Lowrey Organo, Ondioline, Electronic Celesta, and Clavioline. I’ve uncovered some fantastic, and surprising examples of all of these. The next...

Field recordings provide fascinating source material for electroacoustic music. For this episode, I searched the Archive for sound effects and the captured sounds of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles and scooters, plus ambient street sounds from various cities I’ve visited and remixed it all into a soundscape around motoring.

For this episode, we’re going to immerse ourselves in the mysterious ambiance of radio broadcasts. We will feature works by Aki Onda, a sound artist from Japan, plus my first electronic work for radio sounds dating from 1973.

I have a fondness for the adept application of noise elements—non-musical sounds—to an overall fabric of music that contains noise without being totally unhinged. And to these kinds of examples I dedicate this episode.

This episode uses a recurring theme for my podcast--spacey music for the wandering mind. It is called More Electronic Music for Astral Tripping.

Welcome to the annual holiday edition of the podcast in which we feature festive electronic music intended for the season. This year, 17 of the 32 tracks are new to the collection. also included are old favorites from major synthesists of the past: Keith Emerson, Jean Jacques Perrey, Douglas Leedy, Joe Byrd, Hans Wurman, and Bernie Krause. Happy new year and peace.

This is part 2 of my two-part series called Before and After Ambient, a look at Eno’s influential style and how the idea and the style have evolved since the 1980s.

In this episode, we explore ambient music as defined by Brian Eno, listen to some precursors to Eno as well as some tracks from Eno and his contemporaries in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In this episode, we present the second part of our exploration of the electronic music of Oskar Sala.

For the next couple of episodes, we will follow a sonic journey along one of the most fascinating tributaries in the history of electronic music: the music of Oskar Sala (1910-2002) and the Mixtur-Trautonium.

This episode continues my “crosscurrents” series and explores the early days of electronic tape music of Norway.

The sci-fi novel Dune, from 1965, continues to inspire musicians and filmmakers. While recently looking through my archive of recordings I noticed a recurrence of the Dune theme. So, I’ve gathered these instances together for you to enjoy in this podcast.

This podcast comprises an amorphous blend of sounds of the US Open tennis championships, vintage recordings of tennis instructions, a little electronic music, and lots of audio processing.

This episode is about experimental music written for the pipe organ, the original music synthesizer.

Continuing our geographic excursion on crosscurrents in early electronic music, this episode focuses on classic tape music of Japan from two primary sources and polar opposite practices: the NHK broadcasting studio for electronic music and the independent collective of artists known as Group Ongaku.

In this episode, we take a break from electronic music history and present a soundscape for your nighttime listening pleasure created around the famous BBC Shipping Forecast.

Continuing our geographic excursion on crosscurrents in early electronic music, this is part 2 covering tape music from Italy in the 1960s and early 1970s

Continuing our geographic excursion on crosscurrents in early electronic music, this episode focuses on classic tape music from Italy from the 1950s to 1970.