Don Buchla | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Donald Buchla |
Born | April 17, 1937 South Gate, California, US |
Died | September 14, 2016 (aged 79) Berkeley, California, US |
Occupation | Electronic musical instrumental inventor |
Donald Buchla (April 17, 1937 – September 14, 2016) was an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesis. Buchla popularized the "West Coast" style of synthesis. He was co-inventor of the voltage controlled modular synthesizer along with Robert Moog, the two working independently in the early 1960s.[1][2]