One of the many technical aspects of MIDI that is often confusing for those wishing to get into the details is how the connectors work. ...

I came across this video of some sound-generating art objects. I’ve seen lots of videos around the internet lately of homebrew...

I found an awesome video explaining FM synthesis using the Native Instruments FM8. Everything we discuss about FM synthesis in classes at...

Perhaps the greatest frustration for electronic musicians and producers when using hardware sound engines (synthesizers, etc.) with...

There seems to be a resurgent interest in musical robotics across the blogosphere. I've seen a number of posts about this pre-MIDI...

As I continue work on my massive paper relating musical meaning-creation to musical genre I become ever-more fascinated by music that is...

The Roland JV series of sounds continues to be a standard in music production -- from the early incarnations in the JD series during the...

Computer-based music making continues to become ever more popular and accessible. As such, with each new school year I encounter ever...

I recently had a discussion with one of my students about microtonal music. What a wonderful coincidence that I found this video today!...

This blog was started as a way to disseminate a bit of my musicology research to the public, and, since my last post here back in May,...

One of my personal frustrations with technology textbooks is that they very often contain inaccuracies. Not only technology textbooks,...

...there was the integrated circuit. Every semester at the beginning of my MIDI I classes, when discussing the history of electronic...

As an undergraduate music composition student studying under Henry Gwiazda I became intrigued by an entire world of music I never knew...

I have more sites to offer that tackle the issue of musical categories. I completely forgot about them when writing the last entry here....

One of my goals for this blog is to expound my theory of musical supergenre. My idea is one of musical taxonomy taking into account...

My name is Sheldon Kessel. I do music. I don't identify myself as a composer, musician, songwriter, engineer, producer , musicologist, or...