Don Buchla, the groundbreaking synthesizer inventor, has died age 79. His impact on electronic music was vast; Buchla independently invented the first modern synthesizer, at the same time as Robert Moog, in 1963. Subotnick commissioned the first Buchla synthesizer in 1963 and had been friends and collaborators with Buchla ever since. “We wanted to make a new machine.” The first Buchla synthesizer, the Buchla Series 100, was finished in 1963. “It does bother me that the powers that be have such short-sighted views of what musical instrument design and development could be all about.”Subotnick called him a “wizard of interfaces”.

Source: The Guardian September 17, 2016 00:59 UTC