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Darrell Gibson
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Academic, computer-based musician, composer, sound designer and audio programmer using a wide range to technologies. Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth University.
Best PCs for music production 2025: Apple Macs and Windows machines for your home studio

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Best PCs for music production 2025: Apple Macs and Windows machines for your home studio
Discover the power that a desktop PC or Mac can bring to your music-making, with my expert pick of the best desktops for music production
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November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The SDS-3 was the precursor to Simmons' SDS-V, the pioneering and hexagonal electronic drum kit beloved by everyone from Prince to Duran Duran

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"This analogue synth will blow your mind": Behringer unveils SDS-3, a $249 clone of the classic Simmons drum synth
The SDS-3 was the precursor to Simmons' SDS-V, the pioneering and hexagonal electronic drum kit beloved by everyone from Prince to Duran Duran
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November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
‘Music is my remedy’: how DJing is helping Ukraine’s war veterans with their recovery. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘Music is my remedy’: how DJing is helping Ukraine’s war veterans with their recovery
At the Superhumans centre in Ukraine, the EnterDJ music therapy programme teaches war-wounded soldiers how to mix, rehabilitating them with dance music and providing purpose and opportunities to perfo...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
US team develops sound-guided tiny drones that can fly where cameras fail to see. interestingengineering.com/innovation/s...
US team's sound-guided drones can fly where cameras fail to see
US researchers develop sound-based navigation to help tiny drones fly through smoke, dust, and darkness safely.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
SynTesla Giorgio III, a monster modular Synthesizer custom-built for Hans Zimmer’s Next Level Tour synthanatomy.com/2025/10/synt...
SynTesla Giorgio III, a monster modular Synthesizer custom-built for Hans Zimmer's Next Level Tour
Syntesla Giorgio III is a new massive modular Synthesizer custom-built for Hans Zimmer's Next Level Tour 2025/2026.
synthanatomy.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Tonight is the night.......ABC: The Lexicon Of Love Orchestral tour 😎

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ABC announce The Lexicon Of Love Orchestral tour 2025
ABC have announced details of their Lexicon Of Love Orchestral tour 2025, which sees them perform their debut album in its entirety
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October 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Trapping Tiny Objects with Sound physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
Trapping Tiny Objects with Sound
Fluid flow and acoustic waves act together to trap nanoparticles.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Adobe’s new AI audio tools can add soundtracks and voice-overs to videos

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Adobe’s new AI audio tools can add soundtracks and voice-overs to videos
Generate Soundtrack is like Mad Libs for music-making.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I bought this bad boy last weekend.......now I just need to make some music 😍
October 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The “insane” movie soundtrack Nick Offerman adores: “One of my favourite films”. faroutmagazine.co.uk/insane-movie...
The "insane" 1980s movie soundtrack Nick Offerman adores
Known by many as the grumpy Ron Swanson in Parks and Rec, Nick Offerman is obsessed with a time-travel epic with a classic rock backdrop
faroutmagazine.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Moog's Erik Norlander Is Selling Synths to Benefit the Bob Moog Foundation

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Moog's Erik Norlander Is Selling Synths to Benefit the Bob Moog Foundation
More than 40 vintage + modern synths—including Farfisa, Vox, Waldorf + more—are available exclusively on Reverb.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Kilohearts Game Audio Week is back! 👾

We’re celebrating the art of sound in games with interviews, features, and a fun contest for sound designers. ❤️

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Kilohearts Game Audio Week 2025
Interviews, inspiration, discounts, and a sound design contest. It’s a full week of game audio goodness from Kilohearts!
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October 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Music stars arrive in Newcastle for Mercury Prize www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music stars arrive in Newcastle for Mercury Prize 2025
The iconic awards ceremony is being held outside London for the first time in its 33-year history.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I Swear - The surprising challenge of the sound mix filmstories.co.uk/news/i-swear...
I Swear | The surprising challenge of the sound mix
The brilliant I Swear came to the screen on a tight budget - and that presented a hell of a challenge for the small sound team.
filmstories.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The new Ferrari Elettrica will get a sound 'inspired by the electric guitar'
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October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Human ability to focus on specific sounds not found to originate in auditory nerve or brainstem medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10...
Human ability to focus on specific sounds not found to originate in auditory nerve or brainstem
Research led by the University of Michigan's Kresge Hearing Research Institute and the University of Rochester illuminates the mechanisms through which humans can pick out and focus on single sounds i...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Another fantastic night at the Bournemouth EMOM (Electronic Music Open Mic) this weekend, with an amazing line-up 👏 and a huge range of electronic setups 👌
October 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Chester Bennington was a little on the fence as to whether Linkin Park’s most enduring track was strong enough to be on their debut

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“I didn't even want it to be on the record, honestly. How wrong could I have possibly been?”: How Linkin Park created their biggest song that has now racked up billions of streams
Chester Bennington was a little on the fence as to whether Linkin Park’s most enduring track was strong enough to be on their debut
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October 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Zurich: Composer Hildur Gudnadóttir on Finding Her Sound and Scoring the Dark Side

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Zurich: Composer Hildur Gudnadóttir on Finding Her Sound and Scoring the Dark Side
The Oscar-winning composer and Zurich Festival career honoree reflects on subtlety, sexism, and creating the signature sound behind 'Joker', 'Tár', and 'Hedda.'
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October 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is the history of Native Instruments’ massively influential wavetable instrument, from development and release to its recent rebirth as Massive X Player
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“Violinists have their Stradivarius', guitarists have their Strats – and producers have Massive”: How Native Instruments’ Massive became the go-to bass synth for a generation of music-makers
This is the history of Native Instruments’ massively influential wavetable instrument, from development and release to its recent rebirth as Massive X Player
www.musicradar.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Walking Tunes the Brain to Sounds, Sharpens Auditory Awareness

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September 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The Buggles: how we made Video Killed the Radio Star www.theguardian.com/music/2018/o...
The Buggles: how we made Video Killed the Radio Star
‘Everything we’d learned in the studio went into the recording. It would take 26 people to re-create the song live’
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September 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
‘The police watched it to catch criminals who’d jumped bail’: how we made The Hitman and Her. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘The police watched it to catch criminals who’d jumped bail’: how we made The Hitman and Her
‘We broadcast live from nightclubs. So we’d tell the audience, “If you’re here with someone else’s wife, stand apart”’
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM