Latest articles by Kate Puttick
Session drummer Hannah Montrose on facing down challenges and manifesting a spot behind the kit with Lizzo
"In high school, playing drums was everything. But when it came to me picking my GCSEs, the head of music told me, 'Hannah, you don't want to do that'"
Watch breakout UK artist Yunè Pinku flip a piano sample and build a beat from scratch
Championed by the likes of Caribou and Joy Orbison, the rising producer and singer shows us how she starts her tracks
Rising producer Yunè Pinku on DAWs, Madonna and shaking off the cobwebs of lockdown
The Irish-Malaysian producer and songwriter talks "trash" vocals, '90s influences and her love of arpeggiators
“We were blown away by the level of risk-taking”: Oram Awards winners announced
As this year’s winners of the Oram Awards are unveiled, organisers express optimism about the increasingly healthy outlook of gender diversity in the UK’s independent music scene
Helado Negro on working with the SAL-MAR Construction, a one-of-a-kind behemoth of an analogue synth from 1969
Roberto Carlos Lange’s acclaimed latest album took him on a synth quest across the US. But it was back at home, piecing it all together in Ableton, that the rich tapestry took shape
"Plugins get tricky because you start to hear with your eyes. Some of them have flashy interfaces - they make you think they’re doing more than they’re actually doing": St. Vincent on self-producing All Born Screaming
As Annie Clark releases her seventh album, Kate Puttick learns why the studio is both her heaven and her hell, and why there’s still a place for drum machines even when you’ve got Dave Grohl to hand
Julia Holter on the Yamaha CS-60, Kate Bush and the parallels between composition and production: "So much of production is thinking about organising sounds in a similar way to on a sheet of music"
The composer-producer’s new album Something In The Room She Moves continues her quest to distil feelings we never knew had a name
How Daphne Oram's Oramics machine paved the way for the modern DAW: "I want machines and computers to be an extension of the arm of the composer"
Get acquainted with the work of pioneering composer and electronic musician Daphne Oram, co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Oram Awards 2023 winners announced: featuring bioelectrical signal from plants, hearing aid soundscapes and a whole lot more
The Oram Awards ceremony celebrates the legacy of one of the 20th century's most important women in music – while quietly becoming a hotbed for the music tech creativity of today
Nyokabi Kariũki on how she used field recordings, text-to-speech AI and experimental plugins to make her debut album Feeling Body
The formally trained composer tells Kate Puttick how sound-journaling opened a world of experimentation to explore on her new LP
“2023 sees the festival embrace music technology”: Abbey Road’s celebration of female and non-binary producers is putting production at its core
While discussion on music industry representation can ignore technical arts, this year's festival will dig a little deeper, organisers promise
Sudan Archives: "A lot of people are like, ‘but there are no violins on this album’... if they only knew!"
The violinist, songwriter and producer on reimagining the sound of her instrument through guitar pedals and Ableton Live
Jenny Hval: "There are not all that many women in the mixing and mastering game - there’s such a lot of work to be done"
Jenny Hval’s latest album, Classic Objects, saw the Norwegian embracing – and coming to love – the ‘humdrum’ side of production in ways she’d never before explored
Lady Antebellum's Dave Haywood: “I live and die by making sure those guitar parts are right”
Giants of modern country, Lady Antebellum return to these shores this autumn on the heels of yet another Billboard-smashing album. We checked in with their resident guitar whizz, Dave Haywood...
Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers talks Four Voices, guitar roots and multi-instrumentalism
The Atlantan folk rocker on her past and present
Jason Isbell on the Nashville sound, gear addiction and why he steers clear of guitar solos
Sharp insight from the Alabama songwriter
