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.

Recordings from Suzanne Ciani’s very first public performance using the Buchla synthesiser are set to be released through the UK archival label Finders Keepers. Buchla Concert At Galeria Bonino 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 ...

Don Buchla isn’t exactly a household name, but that’s changing, slowly but surely. Buchla, who was born outside Los Angeles and spent the majority of his life in Berkeley until his death in September ...

Those familiar with Suzanne Ciani only through her series of mannered 1990s solo piano releases likely had their minds blown last night (March 2) at New York’s Church of Heavenly Rest, as the ...

When Don Buchla produced his first modular synth in 1963, he had no idea that his creations would become the bonding material for a working relationship and friendship between two American composers: ...

The New Forms Festival celebrates the 50th anniversary of Berkeley-based designer and instrument builder Donald Buchla’s pioneering work with a show tonight at VIVO Media Arts Centre from 7 to 10 p.m.

Donald Buchla is one of the last great musical inventors. Spurred on by composer Morton Subotnick of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, Buchla developed his first control voltage synthesizer in 1963 ...

As fun and humanizing as their anecdotes were, what overshadowed them was a sense of wonder at what Buchla created during his 79 years on this planet (he passed away in early September 2016). While ...