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	Buchla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buchla and Associates is a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, notably synthesizers.
		Buchla tended to not refer to his instruments as synthesizers, as he felt that name gave the impression of imitating existing sounds/instruments.
		While there had been previous synthesizer experiments, Moog and Buchla's major development that made the synthesizer portable and flexible was that of using control voltage to manipulate the various elements of the circuits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buchla (375 words)

	The Oberlin Review Online // Arts
		Chase played the tom-tom, while Buchla worked vocals and what was called a "modified bicycle wheel." The "modifications" consisted of the bicycle wheel, mounted on a square of light blue Styrofoam, hooked up to a sensitive microphone which had a delay effect triggered with a switch at the performer's feet.
		Buchla also had a piece of tough string tied between a spoon held in his right hand and a knife which he held in the left.
		During the performance, accompanied by steady quarter-note syncopations on the tom-tom, Buchla yanked the string between the spokes of the wheel, banged his knife and spoon on them, and then ran the utensils around the edge of the wheel.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/2000.04.07/arts/cat.html (738 words)

	Spring 1996 EMS Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The second section further develops the textual material and is intended to portray the struggling of the individual with the truth of suffering that eventually leads to the serene acceptance and blurring of the distinction between the individual and the world that occurs in the final section.
		The Buchla was used, along with the Alesis effects processors, to process many of the sounds.
		The Buchla was especially useful in the final section, where a complex mix of heavily processed vocal sounds gradually dissipates.
	ems.music.uiuc.edu /news/spring96/pounds.html (803 words)

	Welcome to SEAMUS on-line
		Donald Buchla started building and designing electronic instruments in 1960 when he was commisioned by the Avant Garde composer Morton Subotnik to build an instrument for live electronic music and composing.
		Buchla's early synthesisers were experimental in design to accomadate the experimental music they were intended to produce, utilising unusual control features such as touch sensitive and resistance sensitive plates.
		Buchla started to commercially produce his synthesisers in 1969 with a manufacturing deal from CBS/Fender.
	www.seamusonline.org /dbuchla.html (148 words)

	Techno Guide: Don Buchla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Unlike Moog, Buchla rejected the idea of a "synthesizer" but emphasized the timbral possibilities, and focused it in the design of new control devices other than the standard keyboard, like random control voltage sources, sequencers and voltage-controlled spatial panners.
		Don Buchla founded Buchla Asociates in 1962 and produced numerous electronic devices such as mixers, cabinets, ring modulators, and effects.
		Buchla's synthesizers are part of the history of electronic music, and Space Rock in particular.
	www.intuitivemusic.com /tguidedonbuchla2.html (131 words)

	Buchla 200e \| Terms & Conditions of Sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The distribution method for this is for customers to simply return there 200e firmware card to Buchla in the USA and they will post back the updated card to you.
		Buchla will attempt to meet all published specifications but are not bound to this.
		Parts and workmanship are guaranteed for two years by Buchla with the customer to only pay for any transport expenses.
	www.rlmusic.co.uk /mals_site/buchla/terms.html (193 words)

	Buchla: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Morton subotnick (born 1933) is an american composer of minimal electronic music, best known for his silver apples of the moon, the first electronic work...
		The Buchla allowed musicians to bend and manipulate sound all in one device.
		The modular synthesizer is an early type of synthesizer consisting of separate modules which must be connected by wires to create a so called patch....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/buchla.htm (366 words)

	Growing Up With Electronic Music, Part I
		The Buchla, though, was designed more for experimental music; it was difficult to tune it to the conventional tonal scale, and it had no keyboard to speak of.
		For changing pitches automatically, Buchla had sequencers, in which repeating sequences of notes could be pre- set, and something called a "random voltage generator," which was one of the most useful devices in the whole synthesizer.
		Though I was offered the option of playing the Buchla live on stage, I declined, because of the cumbersome nature of the instrument, not to mention the mishaps of patchcords falling out and bad connections.
	www.pyracantha.com /music/buchla.html (1482 words)

	Vintage Synth Explorer - BUCHLA Synthesizers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Buchla synthesizers are the classic creations of Don Buchla, a circuit designer who produced synthesizers when they truly were analog beasts.
		Buchla started making his first synthesizers on America's west coast for the purpose of simplifying the tedious process of creating "Musique Concrete".
		With that in mind, Buchla synthesizers were among the first to use indivudally tuneable keys for limitless micro-tuning possibilities, analog sequencers, and complex waveforms other than basic sine, sawtooth, and square waves.
	www.vintagesynth.com /misc/buchla100.shtml (535 words)

	Buchla's_machine.html
		While the early Buchla instruments contained many of the same modular functions as the Moog, it also contained a number of unique devices such as its random control voltage sources, sequencers and voltage-controlled spatial panners.
		Buchla has maintained his unique design philosophy over the intervening years producing a series of highly advanced instruments often incorporating hybrid digital circuitry and unique control interfaces.
		Buchla, who early on got burnt by larger corporate interests, has dealt with the burden of marketing by essentially remaining a cottage industry, assembling and marketing his instruments from his home in Berkeley, California.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~tebo/history/50s&_60s/TapeCenter/Buchla100/Buchla's_machine.html (1384 words)

	NEARFIELD MULTIMEDIA MARIMBA LUMINA
		Since the mid-1960s, Buchla has manufactured electronic instruments that are unique in the truest sense of the word.
		Another stimulus (and a good example of the depth of Buchla's instruments) is a melody strike, a strike that occurs alone within a defined time window.
		Buchla has opted for the latter-but again, once you are accustomed to them, the menu navigation and odd abbreviations become understandable.
	emusician.com /mag/emusic_nearfield_multimedia_marimba (3147 words)

	SFTMC.html
		Buchla was working along lines similar to those of Moog in developing a voltage-controlled synthesizer.
		Maginnis remembers that although the official date of introduction for the system was 1966, the first prototype components arrived at the studio as individual modules "one by one as they were developed." Maginnis was one of the first people to produce a piece on the system.
		Since the traditional Buchla does not employ a keyboard (although some later models do), it has always been attractive to composers who are trying to avoid keyboard-oriented approaches to electronic music.
	o-art.org /history/50s&_60s/TapeCenter/SFTMC.html (922 words)

	EMF Institute: Buchla Synthesizer
		In 1964, Donald Buchla developed one of the first analog modular synthesizers.
		Buchla's system also included a keyboard that could simply be touched to trigger a note and a sequencer that allowed a composer to program a series of sounds to play automatically.
		The photo at the left is an example of the Buchla Modular Electronic Music System Series 200, available during the late 1960s.
	emfinstitute.emf.org /exhibits/buchlasynth.html (88 words)

	Serge Synthesizer History
		The Buchla, ARP, and Moog synthesizers were interesting in their way, but could be improved upon.
		As Moog was a powerful East Coast influence that inspired ARP and Polyfusion, Buchla was the West Coast influence on Serge.
		Several Buchla designs, including the use of touch sensitive nontraditional keyboards, sequencers, random voltage generators, function generators, and matrix mixers found their way into Serge's repertoire.
	www.serge-fans.com /history.htm (866 words)

	DIY
		This is a slight variation on the Buchla 292c quad lopass gate.
		I have built several sections of the Buchla Source of Uncertainty all on one circuit board.
		The problem with buiding the Buchla 291 Bandpass Filter has always been the odd dual FET that is used as a buffer twice in the design.
	www.simple-answer.com /DIY.html (944 words)

	[No title]
		Bridgeport resident Philip Buchla, 54, his friend and about 15 other people from all over the world met the pope in 1993 inside the Vatican.
		Buchla's friend, who was supposed to snap a picture of Buchla and the pope as they shook hands, was so overcome when the pope approached them that he fell to his knees.
		He took the photograph, but the only part of Buchla that he managed to get in the picture was his arm.
	www.connpost.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2638254 (628 words)

	Lynx Crowe's Counterclaim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Buchla had been working for Oberheim, and/or Gibson, and/or Zeta, and/or Zeta Inc., and/or CMI in the design of the OB-Mx hardware.
		Crowe and Buchla determined that the hardware and software previously developed by prior Gibson RandD teams for the voice card were useless and discarded the design and other work done by the predecessor teams and completely redesigned the OB-Mx.
		Buchla and Crowe completed the OB-Mx with Buchla being responsible for the hardware design, Crowe being responsible for the voice card firmware design, and Andy Corless being responsible for the front panel interface software.
	stephengoldin.com /gibson/Lynx-counterclaim.html (9677 words)

	Growing up with Electronic Music, part 2
		We didn't have the actual Buchla synthesizer with us, but we did have the tapes of our "Improvisations" series, and my artist mother had a suitcase full of small works of art to show.
		It produced less of a variety of sounds than the Buchla, but it was more manageable, without the annoying tangle of patchcords to lose or drop.
		Though I visited my old territory at the Buchla studio, it was now filled with music students, and I no longer had the time, or the inclination, to continue making electronic music.
	www.pyracantha.com /music/buchla2.html (1320 words)

	Synthmuseum.com - Buchla : 100 Modular Synthesizer
		Buchla called it the "San Fransisco Tape Music Center", the name of the musique concrète center that Morton Subotnick and Ramon Sender had founded.
		The original Buchlas did not have a keyboard (at least one that we would recognize).
		'We felt that it was more important for the Buchla synth to have lots of things that were slightly less stable than to have it be so expensive you could only afford a few modules,' says Subotnick.
	www.synthmuseum.com /buchla/buc10001.html (530 words)

	All Buchla Synthesizers / Electric Music Box WANTED
		Buchla Electric Music Box, Buchla 200 series, CBS Musical Instruments 100 series Buchla Electronic Music System, Music Easel, Buchla 300, 400, 500, 700, modules or parts, broken OK.
		Originally created by Don Buchla in California in the 1960's, these instruments were often quite different from other traditional keyboard-based machines.
		This later became known as the Buchla 100 Modular, which was later produced by (and labelled) CBS Musical Instruments.
	members.aol.com /oldsynthguy/buchla.html (254 words)

	Matrixsynth: Buchla 700
		Shot of the Buchla 700 of the Audities Collection.
		A fourth computer, essentially a pipelined digital signal processor (DSP), is responsible for producing the 700's twelve voices.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	matrixsynth.blogspot.com /2005/11/buchla-700.html (189 words)

	Buchla 200e Modular, Moog Synthesizer Demo \| Blue Distortion
		He pointed out that there was actually simultaneous development of the first voltage controlled modular synthesizer at the same time as Bob Moog was working on the Moog Modular.
		On the other side of America, Don Buchla was busy with his own modular synth creation.
		Buchla and Moog had agreed to share credit for the development of the modular synth.
	www.bluedistortion.com /2005/08/29/200e-modular-and-moog-synth-demo (199 words)

	Sonic State - News (Video Item) WNAMM05: Buchla 200E Modular In Full Force, Don�s latest creation turns a few heads
		The Buchla modular system has been held in high esteem since it was first manufactured in 1970.
		In the mid 80�s it was discontinued due to the rise of digital technology, of course, there�s always been a hardcore group of enthusiasts to keep the flame burning, including the good and the great of the electronic music scene.
		Now that analog is back on the block, Don Buchla and Associates are making the 200E, a modular for the 21st Century with all the traits of working the Buchlidian way, but with integration of MIDI and...
	www.sonicstate.com /news/shownews.cfm?newsid=1959# (259 words)

	EM411.com - [forum] Buchla 200e - Electronic Music 411
		I think Buchla's 60s adventures have left him a little...disconnected?...from the rest of us.
		Which Buchla stuff, there is no clear way of how things should work or should be put together.
		Speaking of which I've heard stories/rumors of Buchla comming up to York University in Toronto in the 60's/70's, hanging out with David Rosenboom (a professor then at york u), and doing weird shit using brainwaves to controll Buchla synths all the while on acid.
	www.em411.com /forum/26388/9 (773 words)

	Managing as Designing—Bibliography
		As Pinch and Trocco tell their stories, Buchla is the counterpoint to Bob Moog; his Buchla Box its antithesis.
		What Moog did, and Buchla failed to do was to “embed into his technology a piece of existing culture—the idea that music is about intervals [p.
		Suzanne Ciani, a pioneer in shaping and creating new sounds, describes a similar scene that occurred when she was using her Buchla 200 to create the pop and pour sound used in Coke commercials.
	design.case.edu /Pinch&Trocco.html (1516 words)

	CDeMUSIC
		Subotnick was there to play the first Buchla synthesizer in 1965.
		'Silver Apples of the Moon' (1967) was done with the first version of Buchla's 'Electric Music Box', a modular synthesizer carried by Subotnick from San Francisco, where it was built, to New York, where he lived in the mid-1960s.
		It was also the first major composition to use the sequencers that Buchla invented as part of his synthesizer.
	www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=msubotnickcds (1002 words)

	Crosstalk: Don Buchla replies...
		In fairness, we didn't suggest that it was impossible to use 200-series modules in the newer casings, merely, as stated on the Buchla web site, that there were some compatibility issues.
		We felt, as we stated at the start of part one, that such redress was long overdue, particularly amongst our readership in the UK and Europe, where Don Buchla's name is much less well-known than in the United States.
		Far from being designed to slight Don and his work, the article was intended to be a celebration of his achievements, and an attempt to familiarise our readers with his unique approach to synth design.
	www.soundonsound.com /sos/mar06/articles/crosstalk.htm (1647 words)

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