Apple’s iPod, iPad “The Future Of Electronic Music” Says Rudess

Billboard has announced its pick for the best music creation app – Jordan Rudess’s Morphwiz The Dream Theater keyboardist took home the Best Music Creation App‘award at the Billboard Music App Awards Tuesday (Oct. 5) for MorphWiz, an app from Wisdom Music that turns the iPhone into a new instrument. After playing a psychedelic rendition… Read More Apple’s iPod, iPad “The Future Of Electronic Music” Says Rudess

Free Music From Richard Lainhart

Free Music Friday: Synthesist Richard Lainhart shared this live synth improvisation, recorded at electro-music 2010, Huguenot, NY, September 12, 2010. Here’s what he has to say about the performance: This track is completely improvised in realtime without backing tracks or edits, and is for Buchla 200e controlled by a Haken Continuum multi-dimensional keyboard. All the sounds… Read More Free Music From Richard Lainhart

Electronic Improvisation For Theremin & Buchla 200e Modular Synthesizer

Sunday Synth Jams: Richard Lainhart and Thomas Zunk perform live at Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst 2010. In this free improvisation, Zunk plays a Moog Etherwave Theremin with a variety of processing pedals, and Lainhart plays a Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer controlled by a Haken Continuum three-dimensional keyboard controller. The musical sculptures seen in the background… Read More Electronic Improvisation For Theremin & Buchla 200e Modular Synthesizer

Radical iPad Synthesizer, MorphWiz, Now Available

iPad Music Software: Jordan Rudess’ new iPad synth, MorphWhiz, is now available in the App Store. MorphWiz was inspired, in part, by the success of the Haken Continuum Fingerboard, a radical MIDI instrument that Jordan uses on stage and in the studio with Dream Theater. Like the Continuum, Jordan Rudess’ MorphWiz is a vertical grid-based musical instrument that… Read More Radical iPad Synthesizer, MorphWiz, Now Available