Don Buchla Interview
This interview with electronic music pioneer Don Buchla is part of a series created by the Red Bull Music Academy.
This interview with electronic music pioneer Don Buchla is part of a series created by the Red Bull Music Academy.

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Buchla and Associates has updated its website with full info on the Electric Music Box, Buchla Series 200e: This year we’re celebrating 45 years of building bizarre electronic musical instruments. What better way to celebrate than to revisit some old instruments – namely the 200 series Electric Music Boxes, manufactured from 1970 to the mid… Read More The Buchla Series 200e Modular Synthesizer
Buchla has introduced a new version of Don Buchla’s Lightning spatial MIDI controllers: Lightning III features improvements in sensitivity, resolution, accuracy, and response time. Perhaps the biggest difference is in the addition of a third axis of sensitivity. Yes, Lightning now responds in all three directions, adding proximity to the horizontal and vertical dimensions brought… Read More Buchla Lightning III Announced
The LA Times has an interesting review of The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, a new book edited by David W. Bernstein. Check out this short excerpt on Don Buchla, creator of the Buchla synthesizer: One expects to discover little-known — sometimes painfully unknown — heroes in books like this,… Read More Don Buchla On Dropping Acid, Synth DIY And Hell’s Angels