You can find some great images of Buchla (both man and machine) at the recent
San Franscisco Tape Music Center event from Pete
here. Be sure to check these out full size by clicking on the "All Sizes" link when you get there. These are great shots. You can click on the images in this post for full size shots as well.
Update: Some additional notes from Pete regarding the Buchla 100: "Mort mentioned that half of it wasn't working. Bill told me that the Frequency Modulator that's in it is one of a kind, and it requires a filter to smooth out the steps it created. Don never built another one. The Buchla sounded really nice. Bill had a few reel to reel decks that he had been trying to get something playing, but they broke right then and there. Its too bad the gear was in such a state. The Buchla that was there was the actual one they had at the Tape center. It now resides at Mills college in Oakland."
You can find some great images of Buchla (both man and machine) at the recent San Franscisco Tape Music Center event from Pete here. Be sure to check these out full size by clicking on the "All Sizes" link when you get there. These are great shots. You can click on the images in this post for full size shots as well.
Update: Some additional notes from Pete regarding the Buchla 100: "Mort mentioned that half of it wasn't working. Bill told me that the Frequency Modulator that's in it is one of a kind, and it requires a filter to smooth out the steps it created. Don never built another one. The Buchla sounded really nice. Bill had a few reel to reel decks that he had been trying to get something playing, but they broke right then and there. Its too bad the gear was in such a state. The Buchla that was there was the actual one they had at the Tape center. It now resides at Mills college in Oakland."
is that Don wearing the hat?
ReplyDeleteoh i see now he is wearing the army jacket...what a rebel :-)
ReplyDeleteI think Peter means Waveform Generator not frequency modulator
ReplyDeleteThe Pauline Oliveros pieces she did on that machine are amazing. Hard to find, but worth it. Similar to Subotnick's Wild Bull.
ReplyDeleteAlien Bog is amazing
ReplyDeleteMy cats freak out when Alien Bog is on the stereo.
ReplyDeleteAwesome pictures, Peter.
I kinda was wondering what Bill ment, but when he told me that, he was pointing to the Frequency Modulator. He said that when its running at high speeds, it oscillates, and the outputs are stepped. So to smooth out the steps, you use a filter. I don't know, maybe he was confused?
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Because I couldn't get into the book release party for the San Francisco Tape Music Center, (Fire Marshals were kicking & keeping people out), I had a few hours available, and because I was already in a Tape Music Center frame of mind, I decided to make a replica, in Max/MSP of the Time Lag Accumulator tape delay system as used by Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Ramon Sender and others at the Tape Music Center.
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-Chris
its like an audio clocked sequence. don, as i understand it dumped the idea not because the concept wasn't vaild, but rather because of it was implimented. somthing about it changing only the dominent harmonics and nothing else. i've run a 200 series sequencer and listened to the output and it is a similar effect. it's been refered to as a graphic oscillator. he did continue the idea in with the harmonic generator which got as far a limited production 100 series module and a prototype in the 200 series (which i have been told is in private hands). it was intended, i guess, for additive synthesis and it would seem, for use as a multiplexer of control tracks.
ReplyDeletesorry for the spelling and gramatic errors. i'm on vacation.
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