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Donald Buchla (born April 17, 1937) is a pioneer in the field of sound synthesizers, releasing his first units shortly after Robert Moog's first synthesizers. However, his instrument was arguably designed before Moog's.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/video-archive/transcript/don_buchla__passing_the_acid_test/transcript )〕 ==Biography== Buchla was born in South Gate, California, and studied physics, physiology, and music. Buchla formed his electronic music equipment company, Buchla and Associates, in 1962 in Berkeley, California. Buchla was commissioned by avant garde music composers Morton Subotnick and Ramon Sender, both of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, to create an electronic instrument for live performance. Under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation Buchla completed his first modular synthesizer in 1963. The result was the Buchla Series 100, which he began selling in 1966. Buchla's synthesizers experimented in control interfaces, such as touch-sensitive plates. In 1969 the Series 100 was sold to CBS, who soon after dropped the line, not seeing the synthesizer market as a profitable area. In 1970 the Buchla 200 series Electric Music Box was released and was manufactured until 1985. Buchla created the Buchla Series 500, the first digitally controlled analog synthesizer, in 1971. Shortly after, the Buchla Series 300 was released, which combined the Series 200 with microprocessors. The Music Easel, a small, portable, all-in-one synthesizer was released in 1972. The Buchla 400, with a video display, was released in 1982. In 1987, Buchla released the fully MIDI enabled Buchla 700.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.buchla.com/historical/index.html )〕 Beginning in the 1990s, Buchla began designing alternative MIDI controllers, such as the Thunder, Lightning, and Marimba Lumina. With the recent resurgence of interest in analog synthesizers Buchla has released a revamped 200 series called the 200e. NIME-05, the 5th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, held in Vancouver, Canada, featured a keynote lecture by Don Buchla as well as a sizable exhibition of many of the instruments he and his team have created over the years. His son Ezra Buchla was a member of experimental bands The Mae Shi and Gowns, and has recorded viola on Chelsea Wolfe's albums ''Abyss'', ''Pain Is Beauty'', and ''Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs''. He has also toured as a member of Chelsea Wolfe and Carla Bozulich's band Evangelista. File:Buchla Ken Kesey.jpg|Sound System from the bus "Further", designed for Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2009/02/buchla-ken-kesey.html )〕 File:Buchla Music Easel.jpg|Buchla Music Easel (ca.1973) 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.buchla.com/historical/music_easel/music_easel.html )〕 File:Buchla 200e Aribitrary Function Generator module.jpg|Model 250e Multiple Arbitrary Function Generator module File:Buchla 260e Duophonic Pitch Class Generator (Escher's Barber Shoppe module).jpg|Model 260e Duophonic Pitch Class Generator module File:Oberheim OB-Mx.jpg|Oberheim OB-Mx (1994) designed by Don Buchla File:Buchla Piano Bar @ Cantos.jpg|Buchla PianoBar (2001);〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cantos.ca/explore/collection-checklist )〕 also sold as Moog PianoBar (2003) 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.moogmusic.com/newsarch.php?cat_id=24 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don Buchla」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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