The legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop closed down in 1998, after 40 years. 50th-anniversary celebrations in 2008, and a just-published book by academic Louis Niebur, titled Special Sound (Oxford), have helped… Read the rest of the article: BBC Engineering Monographs from 1950s and '60s: Once 5 Shillings, Now Free

[Video Link] Why not take the idea of generative sound literally? John Conway certainly set the standard during the early 1970s for taking the programming-as-organism metaphor at its word with… Read the rest of the article: Seaquence: "An experimental musical petri-dish"

(Photo: Thomas Adank, courtesy Touch) Move over, cassette-tape and 8-track reanimators. There's a far older—and arguably more beautiful—retro-tech sonic fetish object in town: the wax cylinder. The original tech dates… Read the rest of the article: Wax Cylinder: Occult Sonic Technology of a Bygone Age, Good as New

Looking for that perfect holiday gift for your most sonically adventurous friends or loved ones? Look no further. The Buddha Machine, introduced in 2005 (and blogged here many many many… Read the rest of the article: If You Meet the Buddha Machine on the Road, Hack It

(Photograph contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by BB reader Josh Koonce) If there's a more robust realm of music more closely simpatico with the Creative Commons philosophy than… Read the rest of the article: Netlabels: Release, Remix, Repeat

[Video Link] The Hollywood life cycle has become familiar: it starts as a movie, continues as a comic, and then proceeds to app stage. This is where Inception, the summer's… Read the rest of the article: Music Apps Killed the MP3 Star

[Video Link] Student protests greeted the announcement of Susan Philipsz as this year's winner of the Turner Prize, the biggest annual award for an artist in Britain. Philipsz is the… Read the rest of the article: Susan Philipsz becomes first sound artist to win Turner Prize