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| Charles Cohen at the Buchla Music Easel |
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This colorful video features sound artist
Charles Cohen improvising on a 1970's Buchla
Music Easel. This extremely rare instrument
is one of Don Buchla's 200 series. Buchla (a
pioneer of audio synthesis) only manufactured
14 of these units. The entire film was edited
from an hour-long set of free improvisation,
with audio was taken directly from Charles'
mixing board.
All of the photography and editing was
produced by Alex Tyson, a sound and video
artist from Pennsylvania. The film was shot
in 16:9 720p High Definition format, using
the Letus35 Extreme and a 35mm LensBaby 3GPL.
This film is free to distribute, share,
blog, vlog, etc. When re-posting, please copy
and paste this text to inform anyone about
the film. Also.. please 'bling out' the embed
size to 640x360.
At this time the film is only available
online. While you can stream it in HD, it is
best viewed on DVD.
Please contact the filmmaker for hard copies
if interested.
Alex can be reached at alextyson (at) gmail
dot com
Tags : Buchla Alex Tyson Noise Music Letus35 Lensbaby 3GPL improvisation synth music hvx-200 Charles Cohen |
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Affichage : 1368
Durée : 178 s |
| Music Studio: The Moog - Buchla Piano Bar |
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http://www.Alfred.TV
READ ME FIRST: The Moog - Buchla Piano Bar
uses infrared sensors -- a flashlight let us
play it in real time! A brilliant alternative
controller designed by Don Buchla and the
late Bob Moog. The black keys on my piano
were too short - I couldn't get it working
properly on my piano. But enjoy what we were
able to do with a flashlight!
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Tags : Moog Piano Bar Don Buchla Alternative Controller Synthesizer Thisisadamb synth ThisIsAdamB Alfred Alfred.tv Metadestroyer |
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Durée : 194 s |
| Buchla 259 Vintage Modular Oscillator |
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Rare 1970's Modular Oscillator running
through a Plan-B Vactrol Filter and Gate.
There are Vactrols (components that mate
LED's with audio for natural acoustic tones)
in the Osc so this makes a close to vintage
complete Buchla sound. The Osc sounds like
nothing else I've heard with it's waveshaping
and altering of harmonic structure of the
waveform. There's a Modulation OSC that also
can pitch same as Main but I use it here for
FM, AM and Timbre Shaping. Used here also
are my Doepfer LFO, Plan-B Random, ASys
Envelope, Modcan Sequencer and Asys
Delay/Sampler.
Tags : Buchla 259 200 Modular Synthesizer Synth Plan-B Vactrol Doepfer Analogue Systems |
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Affichage : 23328
Durée : 321 s |
| Plan B doing homage to Buchla |
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I took the new synth in today to get some
adjustments done. While I was there Peter
Grenader, the genius behind the PlanB modules
showed me some tricks and how to properly use
some of these modules thus opening my mind up
to the Buchla philosophy of synthesis. It was
such a great experience meeting the man
behind the instrument, almost like a modern
day version of a violin maker.
Well, this is what I did when I got home
after watching Peter do some simple, but
amazing patches on my synth. The last video
was me running rampant on the PlanB, this one
shows why I chose these modules. This is the
first of many patches that will have that
Buchla inspired PlanB sound.
Thanks Peter!
The only thing added was reverb on the
computer. I borrowed a LFO from the Filtered
Coffee to get the time base to vary by using
the control processor. Other than that, it's
all self contained Plan B modules.
Stereo version here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-79tDaxsi4&fm
t=18
The youtube audio sounds like ass, here's a
slightly better mp3:
http://www.joekickass.com/blog/wp-content/upl
oads/2008/07/planb_buchlaschool.mp3
Tags : PlanB modular synthesizer Buchla electro-acoustic Peter Grenader NoiseBug |
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Affichage : 1634
Durée : 231 s |
| Buchla Lopass Gate 292 Clone |
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My Buchla-inspired MOTM format (prototype) of
the Buchla 292 Lopass Gate. I used the VTL5C4
(slow) Vactrol for the circuit. I love the
rubbery texture and fat response of the unit.
It is a Don Buchla design per a Peter
Grenader translation on Matthias's Fonik
Modular website with a Mark Verbos resonance
mod and some small personal touches. More
information about the design, PCB, mods and
panel file will be on my website soon at
www.naturalrhythmmusic.com
Tags : Buchla Lopass Gate 292 Lowpass VCF Filter Modular Analog Vactrol Verbos Grenader Synth DIY |
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Affichage : 848
Durée : 386 s |
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