Finders Keepers Records has released a new album that compiles rare tracks by synth goddess Suzanne Ciani. Ciani is best known for her more recent new age recordings, but she is also one of the first musicians to make a career as a synthesist. After completing an MA in music composition, Ciani was introduced to… Read More Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
Earlier in the month, we brought you the news about Don Buchla selling his company to a new company, Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments. Here’s a video from the 2012 NAMM Show about the announcement, via Sonic State. It features new Buchla CEO Michael Morans and a rare appearance on camera from Don Buchla, who clearly has a lot… Read More Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments
At the 2012 NAMM Show, several interesting announcements were made about electronic music legend Don Buchla, above, and the future of his electronic music instruments: His company, Buchla & Associates, has been acquired by a group of investors, who are creating a new company Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments. Buchla wil be the Chief Technology Officer… Read More Buchla Announces New Company, Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments, & Plans For A Buchla Keyboard
http://vimeo.com/32362481 This interview with electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick, from the 2011 Red Bull Music Academy, digs into his experiences in the early days of synthesizers. Back in 1963 when synthesizers and electronic music were strictly the refuge of academic professors, Subotnick played Don Buchla’s Music Box on his experimental album Silver Apples Of The… Read More Morton Subotnick Interview (Madrid 2011)
This video captures a performance by Alessandro Cortini and Don Buchla, performing at San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2010. Cortini and Buchla play Blindoldfreak’s Everything Ends Here.
Electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick, who, at 77 is active and still working with modular synthesizer he helped design with Don Buchla in the early sixties, had some interesting thoughts to share, recently, on synthesis and his role in the history of the future: “My future was never the future of music in the direction… Read More Morton Subotnick On His Role In The History Of The Future
The latest episode of Electronic Independence features electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick. Subotnick gives a tour of his New York studio and discusses his career, working with Don Buchla, the Buchla Series 100 modular synthesizer and working with Ableton Live. Along the way, Subotnick gives some fantastic insight into the history of electronic music and… Read More Morton Subotnick Interview & Studio Tour
Buchla And Associates, Winter NAMM 2011. Image via Synthesizers on Facebook
Don Buchla, creator of the Buchla modular synthesizer and other pioneering electronic instruments, at the 2010 NAMM Show.
Buchla And Associates have introduced three new modules for the Buchla 200e modular synthesizer: Model 223e TACTILE INPUT PORT Model 260e DUOPHONIC PITCH CLASS GENERATOR Model 296e SPECTRAL PROCESSOR Details on each of the new Buchla 200e modules below. See the Buchla And Associates site for more information.
