SOUND ON SOUND
William Stokes is a writer and musician in three-piece avant-psych band Voka Gentle. He has written on music and music technology for The Guardian, MOJO, The Financial Times and more.
With Voka Gentle he has made records with producers from Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Grizzly Bear, Nick Cave) to Sam Petts-Davies (Radiohead, Frank Ocean, Roger Waters).
As well as being a guitarist and pianist, he is a synthesis enthusiast with a particular interest in sampling and sound manipulation.
Growing up in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara, Eduardo De La Paz didn’t have many opportunities to learn the craft of recording and production. He has since made his own name as a formidable mixer, and in the process founded a studio.
Expert Sleepers’ Andrew Ostler gives us a blow‑by‑blow account of the thinking behind his new analogue modules.
Expert Sleepers' Andrew Ostler provides insight into two of his favourite modular techniques, plus a round-up of Modular news and releases.
The next batch of analogue Expert Sleepers modules expands the line‑up in several new and exciting directions.
Effects, particularly spatial effects, constitute a relatively modern facet of modular synthesis, but this need not mean they should only be used as enhancement for existing sounds created on other modules.
A pair of Eurorack modules from Xaoc Devices reviewed, how do the Ostrawa mixer and Bohumin expander stack up?
GG has worked with some of pop’s most formidable acts, from Little Mix to Madonna.
Drawing its inspiration from vast swaths of desert in the American Southwest, the Mojave is concerned with all things granular.
A “phase and frequency modulation toolkit” is how Eric Schlappi describes the Three Body...
Japanese artist and producer Taigen Kawabe is best known as the frontman and bass guitarist of boundary‑destroying psych‑rock band Bo Ningen, whose repertoire ranges from experimental soundscapes to guitar‑driven chaos and screaming.