Donald Buchla was an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesis.
12 Facts About Don Buchla
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Don Buchla was co-inventor of the voltage controlled modular synthesizer along with Robert Moog, the two working independently in the early 1960s.
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Don Buchla studied physics, physiology, and music at UC Berkeley, graduating in 1959 as a physics major.
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Don Buchla formed his electronic music equipment company, Don Buchla and Associates, in 1962 in Berkeley, California.
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Don Buchla was commissioned by composers Morton Subotnick and Ramon Sender, both of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, to create an electronic instrument for live performance.
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Don Buchla began designing his first modules for the Tape Music Center in 1963.
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Don Buchla's synthesizers experimented in control interfaces, such as touch-sensitive plates.
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Don Buchla created the Don Buchla Series 500, the first digitally controlled analog synthesizer, in 1971.
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In 1987, Don Buchla released the fully MIDI enabled Don Buchla 700.
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In 2015, it was reported that Don Buchla had taken the owners of BEMI to court, citing health problems due in part to unpaid consulting fees and asserting a claim to his original intellectual property.
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Don Buchla died at the age of 79 on September 14,2016 of complications from cancer in Berkeley, California.
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Don Buchla was survived by his wife, a son, Ezra Buchla who is a musician, daughters Jeannine Serbanich and Erin Buchla, and two grandchildren.