Digital signal processors (DSPs) represent one of the fastest growing segments of the embedded world. Yet despite their ubiquity, DSPs present difficult challenges for programmers. In particular, ...

Last month, Floating Points (aka UK producer Sam Shepherd) performed Promises — his 2021 collaborative album with the London Symphony Orchestra and the late Pharoah Sanders — live for the first time ...

Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for the longest time, something reserved for people with big wallets. This ...

In 2021, Sam Shepherd, the UK producer known as Floating Points, teamed up with astral jazz legend Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra to release the stunning collaborative LP Promises.

Throughout his career, much of the chatter surrounding Floating Points (a.k.a. Sam Shepherd) has had nothing to do with his music. Since 2009, the London producer has built up a reputation as a ...

Sam Shepherd (Floating Points) released "Vocoder," his first single of the year, last month. It was also his first solo song since Promises, a collaborative LP with Pharoah Sanders and the London ...

UK veteran and near-walking-legend of the electronic scene, Floating Points is prone to reinvention. The last most audiences heard of him, he united with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony ...

On February 25, 1991, during the eve of the of an Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia, a Scud missile fired from Iraqi positions hit a US Army barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. A defense was available – ...

The UK is still reeling from an unprecedented heatwave, and Floating Points’ Sam Shepherd is holed up in his London studio trying to stay cool amongst his gear. “It’s never been like this,” he tells ...

December 22, 2021 • In a year where putting on a record was the only way to escape, we wondered what how our favorite musicians fared. From Lucy Dacus on Dijon to Vince Staples on Doja Cat, these are ...