Welcome to this space which will unfold into my musings, explorations, demos, tricks and tips for the Buchla 200e system and the Buchla Music Easel.

This modest entry will be a free-ranging meandering through my constant musings on all thoughts Buchla.

I’ll be expanding on concepts from my first post so you may want to take a moment and check it out. Be sure to download the video.

Inflection is defined as:

1) the act or result of curving or bending
2) change in pitch or loudness of the voice.

When I first met Alex at BEMI (Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments) we would spend a lot of time exploring patching philosophy. One comment I made that has stayed with Alex, and he quotes it often in many circumstances, is “Do the Opposite!” So. . .I am now calling it The Alex Mantra.

With this post I continue to build on the knowledge and examples of my past posts, you might check them out for background material.

Now let’s look at gestures…

Like a conductor whose physical gestures shape rhythm, dynamics and phrasing …

Today I’d like to explore simple uses of the Easel’s Program Card that can be populated with just a couple of resistors to yield some fun and expressive control voltage switching among the Modulation Modes.

For me, Don Buchla fundamentally and universally changed the way we hear and listen to electronic music. His genius lives on in his instrument designs, endless . . .

With this post I’m resuming my Buchla Blog after a multi-month haitus. Rather than narrative blogs I’ll be offering an ongoing series of video tutorials on the basic functions of the Buchla 296e Spectral Processor.

This second episode looks at the morphing functions of the Buchla 296e Spectral Processor.

Looking at the Split Filter functions . . .

Comb Filter and more Split Filter explorations

Looking at Spectral Display and Envelope Followers

This episode I look at using the VCA to control each bandwidth filter.

Looking at Spectral Transfer function

I have methodically gone through the manual in a series of videos as I discover Allen’s approach and unfolding of the Easel’s mysteries.