In this new video, the veteran electronic musician, DJ, MC, and producer is joined by keyboardist and long-time collaborator Brian Ellis to create a complete track based around the vocoder’s iconic ...

On Version History: how to play your voice like an instrument, with a little help from Chromeo. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. is ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Half art book, half music nerd bathroom reading, Dave Tompkins' long-in-the-works history of the vocoder, "How to Wreck a Nice Beach," chronicles the sound synthesizing system's ...

The vocoder was never intended to change the music scene. In fact, it wasn’t meant for music at all. Its origins trace back a century, when engineer Homer Dudley at Bell Labs sought a more efficient ...

There are few sounds that encapsulate electronic music like the sound of the vocoder. That sound of the robots singing: that’s a vocoder! The only problem is, they can be a tad tricky to use, but ...

Arturia's MiniFreak is one of our favourite synths released in the past few years, a versatile and affordable hybrid analogue/digital poly that gained even more creative firepower following a ...