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Sep 1, 2007,
By Scott Wilkinson
Wireless microphone systems have been a mainstay of performing musicians, offering much more freedom to prance around the stage than their wired counterparts....
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Aug 1, 2007,
By Scott Wilkinson
Brain Actuated Technologies offers a product called Brainfingers that detects facial muscle movement and brain waves and converts them into control signals that can be used to affect musical playback....
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Jun 1, 2007,
By Scott Wilkinson
As electronic musicians, we have insatiable appetites for digital storage; no matter how much we have, we always need more. Hard disks and solid-state...
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May 1, 2007,
By Scott Wilkinson
Electronic Musician discusses photonics, which carries and processes information using light instead of electric current....
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Apr 1, 2007,
By Scott Wilkinson
Textile-based sensors bring the air guitar to life....
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Mar 1, 2007,
By Scott Wilkinson
Microphones are among the most mature devices in the electronic musician's toolbox, and they all work according to the same principle: sound waves impinge...
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Feb 1, 2007,
By Scott Wilkinson
Most musical instruments, electronic or otherwise, are designed to be played by one person. If you bring several individuals and their instruments together,...
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Jan 1, 2007,
By Scott Wilkinson
Surround sound is one of the biggest advances to have been made in audio reproduction for quite some time. But what about all the existing 2-channel content?...
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Dec 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
As most tech-savvy folks know, the ongoing shrinkage of electronic components cannot continue forever. At some point, conventional transistors will succumb...
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Nov 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
Mobile music players such as the Apple iPod have changed the face of our industry for good or ill, depending on who you talk to. But one thing's for sure...
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Oct 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
You might be aware of the war now raging in consumer electronics between the HD DVD and Blu-ray formats to become the next-generation optical disc for...
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Sep 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
With microprocessor clock speeds now in excess of 3 GHz, what can we expect in the future? Once again, IBM is leading the way. In collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology, the company has demonstrated a prototype silicon-germanium (SiGe) heterojunction bipolar transistor...
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Aug 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
Data compression is a huge boon to the audio industry. MP3, for example, revolutionized music distribution, and Dolby Digital and DTS allowed 5.1-channel...
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Jul 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
Speakers haven't changed much over the past few decades, and speaker technology is one of the most mature and stable technologies available to the electronic...
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Jun 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
It is well known that to make integrated circuits faster and more powerful, the individual elements within them must be made smaller, leading Intel cofounder...
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May 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
No matter what type of technology they use, all electronic musicians depend on one thing: electric power. That power comes mostly from burning fossil...
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Apr 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
One of the most fascinating anomalies of human perception is a phenomenon called synesthesia, a word derived from the Greek for joined sensation. For...
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Mar 10, 2006
A lot of information about computational nanotechnology has appeared on my desktop in recent months, some of which could be relevant to electronic musicians in the future....
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Mar 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
Online technology is uniquely suited to help new artists gain an audience, thanks to music-recommendation services offered by the likes of Amazon, iTunes,...
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Jan 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
As the saying goes, anyone who can remember the '60s probably wasn't there. I don't remember much from that era (which means I must have been there!),...
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Dec 1, 2005,
By Scott Wilkinson
Surround sound is becoming increasingly important for electronic musicians of all sorts. Movie and game soundtracks are routinely mixed in 5.1 surround,...
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Nov 1, 2005,
By Scott Wilkinson
Loudspeaker systems have used cone and dome transducers almost since their inception in the late 19th century. We've seen advances in speaker technology,...
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Oct 1, 2005,
By Scott Wilkinson
Electronic musicians are familiar with some of the prefixes that indicate data-storage capacity. For example, the maximum amount of RAM in the original...
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