Spotlight Round-ups

What impact will machine learning and AI have on the arts?

Deep in rural Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, engineer and producer Owain Fleetwood Jenkins has built a paradisal residential studio in an abandoned chapel...

Multitrack recording at home, a decade before the Portastudio...

As the man behind the phenomenally successful British developer ALM/Busy Circuits, Matthew Allum speaks all things modular.

Graham Massey talks about his early days with the formation of 808 State and improvising with electronic instruments, through to current collaborations and favourite creative tools.

Martyn Ware has been at the forefront of the British synth-pop scene since its inception, founding the hugely influential Human League and Heaven 17. This year he released his autobiography, entitled Electronically Yours Vol.1.

When Stormzy agreed to be interviewed for this month’s cover feature, he set one condition. We would, he insisted, be...

Modular Profile: Finlay Shakespeare

The founder of Bristol‑based developer Future Sound Systems, Finlay Shakespeare is a...

For Spike Edney, touring with one of the biggest bands in the world has meant keeping up with the very latest in stage keyboard technology.

Britain’s most high‑profile rapper has made his most ambitious album yet — with a little help from his friends.

Combining deft production and fluent beat‑making with no‑holds‑barred spoken word and singing, Bristol’s Billy Nomates, aka Tor Maries, has enjoyed a fast ascent to cult success.

I bought my first CD player in 1984. I had been lusting for one since I first saw/heard the new format three years earlier,...