Long Reads

Welcome aboard! Your crew today? Manchester enigma Jim Noir and honey-voiced Soundcarriers/International Teachers Of Pop frontwoman Leonore Wheatley. Together they are Co-Pilot and their new album is a one-way flight to psychedelic pop heaven

As Decisive Pink, Kate NV and Angel Deradoorian make abstract and infectious electropop. Loaded with analogue synths, their debut record is a playful, sultry and “quietly magical” sonic delight

Morton Subotnick’s 1967 album ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’ is an experience of pure electronic music – or “new new music”, as Subotnick puts it. It was created solely on the Buchla, the modular synth he commissioned as an “easel” for creating the kind of studio art sounds he had in mind

Music tech guru Robin Vincent on his conversion – and subsequent addiction to – modular synthesis

Mysterious producer Veryan makes bewitching ambient soundscapes as immersive and inspiring as the remote Scottish forest she calls home

The founder of music tech company Expert Sleepers, Edinburgh’s Andrew Ostler also employs modular synths in his deeply immersive ambient/drone soundscapes

With her improvised, hardware-only sonic collages, composer and modular specialist Loula Yorke has become a live performer of high repute

Based in Manchester, sound artist Vicky Clarke explores DIY electronics, digital art and what she calls “techno-emotional states”, resulting in scintillating recorded work and live AV performances

Philippe Petit, co-founder of thriving electronic/modular synthesis platform Modulisme, is a prolific, modular-focused recording artist in his own right