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Donald Buchla

*1937 US
Electronic

Donald Buchla (born April 17, 1937, South Gate, California, USA - died September 14, 2016, Berkeley, California, USA) was an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesizers. The inventor of the Buchla modular synthesizer which was used by Ken Kesey, Morton Subotnick, Allen Strange and many others. He was one of the first to design voltage controlled synthesizers, doing so independently and at the same time as his east coast counterpart Robert Moog. Primarily an engineer, he occasionally made music himself, such as in The Electric Weasel Ensemble.

     
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Music of the Spheres on New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media: Women In Electronic Music - 1977 by Various Artists

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Title Artist Year Type
Collaboration In PerformanceDavid Rosenboom & Donald Buchla1978Album
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