Buchla

« I wouldn’t call anything that I’ve built a synthesizer. I first started designing members of the electronic family of instruments in 1962. My own interests are in moving away from any traditions. We’re tradition bound. We have concepts of what music is, and what is and what is not music. We have virtuosity, that is performance technique, developed after years of study and centuries of tradition. We have instrumentsthat have been refined and refined, generation after generation. So music as we know it is rooted in a great deal of tradition, and is resistant to change on many levels: the instrumental, the performance, and the listening levels. I’m not well-rooted in any of the traditions and I’d like to investigate the sonic experience in a very general way. » DON BUCHLA (1937/2016)