Electronic musical instrument actual musical instruments is often unclear. In the 2010s, electronic musical instruments are now widely used in most styles of music. In popular music styles such as electronic dance music, almost all of the instrument sounds used in recordings are electronic instruments (e.g., bass synth, synthesizer, drum machine). Development of new electronic musical instruments, controllers, and synthesizers continues to be a highly active and interdisciplinary field of research. Specialized conferences, notably the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, have organized to report cutting-edge work, as well as to provide a showcase for artists who perform or create music
Faye Flam in the Special Projects category of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association's 2011 Keystone Press Awards for her article "Faulting the Forensics". Flam has been nominated for a Pulitzer prize for work in "The Philadelphia Inquirer". Flam's "Planet of the Apes" series drew criticism from Creationists. In an interview with "Discover" magazine, Flam indicated that the most intense criticism of her work came from coverage of climate change. Faye Flam Faye Flam (born c. 1964) is an American journalist. She has written for "Science Magazine" and wrote two weekly columns for "The Philadelphia Inquirer", including one on sex and one on evolution.