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Buchla & Associates

American synthesizer manufacturer founded by Don Buchla in 1962.

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Instruments Technology

Founded by Don Buchla in 1962, Buchla & Associates built the 100 and 200 series modular systems that defined the “West Coast” approach to synthesis, distinguished by complex-waveform oscillators, touch-plate interfaces, and sequencing rather than the keyboard-and-filter conventions Robert Moog established on the opposite coast.

Works in the Library

  • Don Buchla, Buchla & Associates INSTRUMENT

    Buchla 100

    Don Buchla's modular voltage-controlled synthesizer, commissioned by the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the early 1960s.

    INSTRUMENTS TECHNOLOGY