Donald Buchla
American inventor
Also known as: Don Buchla
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history of electronic music
- In electronic instrument: The electronic music synthesizer
The synthesizers of the Americans Donald Buchla and Robert Moog were introduced in 1964. These instruments differed primarily in the control interfaces they offered. The Buchla instruments did not feature keyboards with movable keys; instead, they had touch-sensitive contact pads that could be used to initiate sounds and sound patterns.…
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music synthesizers
- In music synthesizer
…developed by the American scientist Donald Buchla, was activated by a “keyboard” that was a touch-sensitive metal plate without movable keys, somewhat comparable to a violin fingerboard. It was used in such works as Morton Subotnick’s Silver Apples of the Moon (1967) and The Wild Bull (1968).
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