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

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 ...

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.

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, ...