The LEM218's touch-capacitive interface is one that's featured heavily in Buchla's designs over the years: the brand's founder Don Buchla was one of the first to utilize the touchplate in electronic ...

One of the groovier manifestations of truly spontaneous musical creation is the Buchla Music Easel, introduced in 1973: a modular analog synthesizer, a looping sequencer and a touch-plate keyboard.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith doesn't play music so much as she paints it. At work behind her Buchla Music Easel, she crafts songs that twist and turn and are full of strange colors. The Los Angeles-based ...

Both Cohen and Smith will be using the Buchla Music Easel, an obscure instrument designed by Berkeley inventor Don Buchla. Those who return on Sunday, Sept. 13, can catch sets by Olivia Block ...

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 ...

The Philadelphia musician Charles Cohen, who's in his late sixties, plays a Buchla Music Easel, an arcane synthesizer built in limited quantities in the 1970s. He is primarily a performer and an ...

Just released on Friday, Sunergy pans generations of Buchla synths between Suzanne Ciani (Buchla 200e) and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (Buchla Music Easel). The former studied with Buchla in the '70s ...

When the Buchla Music Easel was introduced in 1972, it was a philosophical compromise for a modular synth company that believed in the future of music, which did not originally include a ...

Love From Dust marks the minimalist Irish producer Donnacha Costello's return to making music after unspecified circumstances in 2010 led him to sell off his studio and abandon music entirely. The ...

In avant garde music circles, Philadelphia musician Charles Cohen is something of a legend, the rare master of a synthesizer called the Buchla Music Easel. In 2011, he was named a Pew Fellow for ...

Don Buchla—who created the first modular synthesizer in 1963, the same year that Robert Moog was inventing his modular synth—passed away September 14. He was 79.