Peter Matussek

Medienästhetik des Klangs

9. Automatisierung der Klangproduktion

9.2.7.1 Der Buchla-Synthesizer (Donald Buchla 1964)


Acid House:

Phuture: Acid Tracks (1985). Quelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=218&v=JCUPc9zVfyo

Acid Techno:

2015 Acid Techno Mix - March 303 Madness - Mr. LooteR - El Callejon Del Diablo. Quelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXCZqh9ovgQ

9.2.7.1 Der Buchla-Synthesizer (Donald Buchla 1964)

The Buchla Modular Electronic Music System, 100-series or "Buchla Box" was developed between 1961 and 1962. In 1963 it became the first marketed synthesizer. This system was designed by Donald Buchla in consultation with composers Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick (the latter  emains an exponent of Buchla's systems). In 1969 all rights to this studio-type system were purchased for marketing by CBS Musical Instruments. (CBS discontinuedd istribution in 1971.) Around this time Buchla reentered the market with the Electric Music Box, or 200-series, which was a greatly improved, expanded, and stabilized version of the original. B th of these systems represent a three-part hierarchical plan of routing and control:

A. Audio Signals (outputs of oscillators and noise sources; wave forms, signal inputs a d outputs of mixers, filters, gates and reverberation) run a bit above line-level (ca. 1 volt RMS) and are routed by mini-phone patchcords.

B. Control Voltages, used to control audio circuitry, run from zero to ca. + 15 volts and are routed by banana-plug patchcords.

C. Trigger- or Timing-Pulses operate at ca. + 15 volts and are normally used to initiate certains tored functions, most commonly those of envelope generators, random voltages, and sequencers. These are also routed by banana plugs. Control voltage and trigger jacks are differentiated through color coding.

Quelle:
Frank L. McCarty: Electronic Music Systems: Structure, Control, Product. IN: Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Spring - Summer, 1975), S. 98-125.

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