Complex oscillators and audio-rate modulation meets digital mod routing and effects in Buchla’s surprisingly approachable new ...

Don Buchla, the electronic musical instrument designer who built one of the first modular synthesizers and whose influence on electronic music is still prevalent today, died Wednesday at the age of 79 ...

Donald Buchla, modular synthesizer visionary who indelibly influenced Bay Area experimental music, died at home in Berkeley on September 14 of complications related to cancer, confirmed his son Ezra.

Music production has always been subject to rampant and righteous bouts of brand loyalty. Just as desktop musicians debate the merits of Reason vs FL Studio, analogue aficionados often argue over ...

Don Buchla, an innovative designer of electronic instruments who helped develop the first line of modular synthesizers around the same time as his East Coast counterpart Robert Moog, died Sept. 14 at ...

The pan-generational duo Suzanne Ciani and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith pay tribute to the modular synth pioneer. "Don Buchla made it possible for me to... Don Buchla believed in the humanity of wires. The ...

California’s unique mix of tech, art, and counterculture made it the birthplace of some of the most iconic synthesizers in music history. From Buchla’s modular experiments to Sequential’s Prophet-5, ...

Fashioning cross-sensory perception into compositions on modular synths, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's music is truly otherworldly in its beauty. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith was perfectly happy just hangin in the ...

Don Buchla believed in the humanity of wires. The modular synth pioneer created an instrument like none other, one that relied on intuition, learning and, most importantly, human touch. He died ...