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.

The musician and inventor created the Buchla 200 and the Buchla Music Easel, which were used by Silver Apples and Grammy winner Suzanne Ciani Don Buchla, the groundbreaking synthesizer inventor, has ...

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, ...

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 synthesis pioneer Don Buchla has died at the age of 79. Buchla’s son Ezra confirmed to THUMP in an email that his father passed away Wednesday night from “complications following a long battle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prior to her interest in modular synthesis, composer and producer Maria Teriaeva played guitar in several Russian indie bands, ...

SUPERBOOTH 2026: US brand Buchla is closely associated with West Coast synthesis; an approach to modular instrument design with an emphasis on complex oscillators, which lends itself to adventurous, ...

Like few instrument designers before or since, Don Buchla wanted to change the way people thought about sound. Starting with his first electronic instrument—the Buchla Series 100—in 1963, the engineer ...

In a new video from The Talkhouse, entitled Two Bald Blokes And A Buchla, Vince Clarke, synthpop pioneer with Depeche Mode, Yaz and Erasure, talks to Reed Hays, a master of the mighty Buchla Modular ...

Musicians and fans have taken to Twitter on Friday to pay tribute to Don Buchla, a pioneering synthesizer engineer whose instrumental remain influential today. No official announcement of his death ...

If you share my taste in music, you will immediately recognize the name Vince Clarke. But even if you don’t, you’re probably familiar with music he’s created. You may not remember Yaz (or Yazoo for ...