Don Buchla believed in the humanity of wires. The modular synth pioneer created an instrument like none other, one that relied on intuition, learning and, most importantly, human touch. He died ...

Donald Buchla, modular synthesizer visionary who indelibly influenced Bay Area experimental music, died at home in Berkeley on September 14 of complications related to cancer, confirmed his son Ezra.

Prior to her interest in modular synthesis, composer and producer Maria Teriaeva played guitar in several Russian indie bands, composing a number of instrumental EPs under the alias Dub I Prosto ...

Don Buchla isn’t exactly a household name, but that’s changing, slowly but surely. Buchla, who was born outside Los Angeles and spent the majority of his life in Berkeley until his death in September ...

Back in 2015, Sensel introduced the Morph, a sensor-packed interface that could accommodate a host of colorful overlays for different tasks – from digital art creation to making music and gaming to ...

Don Buchla, the electronic musical instrument designer who built one of the first modular synthesizers and whose influence on electronic music is still prevalent today, died Wednesday at the age of 79 ...

Modular synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla has died. The news was confirmed on the Buchla website. Mark Vail, author of the books The Synthesizer: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, ...

Eliot Curtis, the Broadcast Operations Manager for KPIX Television, was recently tasked with the restoration of a vintage Buchla Model 100 modular synthesizer—an instrument that had been sitting in a ...

As afternoons at work go, San Francisco TV station technician Eliot Curtis’s task of cleaning up an old Buchla modular synth while volunteering for a local university proved a little more eventful ...

Music production has always been subject to rampant and righteous bouts of brand loyalty. Just as desktop musicians debate the merits of Reason vs FL Studio, analogue aficionados often argue over ...

The pan-generational duo Suzanne Ciani and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith pay tribute to the modular synth pioneer. "Don Buchla made it possible for me to... Don Buchla believed in the humanity of wires. The ...