Soundtracking close to every entry in Konami’s still-growing franchise, Akira Yamaoka is renowned for being a master horror-and-emotion sonic craftsman. One of the key creatives ...

US composer and lawyer Robert Caskin Prince III, known as Bobby, passed away last Tuesday at the age of 81. The musician, already legendary during his lifetime, shaped the sound of computer games in ...

Despite low-quality sample rates, vintage digital drum machines remain a production constant. We hook-up three of the best, ...

The dancers had used music generated by AI. Whatever model was involved had likely been trained on “You Get What You Give” and had copied some of the song’s content, as AI systems are prone to do.

Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and this week we’ve got something even more arcane: the results of the 29th ...

The Played by Humans campaign wants to create a new standard for identifying music performed by real musicians, as AI-generated songs flood streaming platforms.

Investigation agencies have recently decided to prosecute criminal cases involving large-scale intellectual property rights ...

Instrument maker Roland — known for its synthesizers and drum machines, among other things – has launched a new melody-generation software called Melody Flip. The technology combines Roland’s hardware ...

Proponents of Portland Community College’s Music and Sonic Arts (MSA) program tell the Mercury they’re planning to rally before a board meeting at the Sylvania campus in Southwest Portland, on ...

Cher, Paul Simon, Whitney Houston, and more will be honored during the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards Ceremony on Jan. 31, 2026. The event will celebrate the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award, ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.