Buchla Easel

Featuring the amazing BUCHLA Music Easel.

Buchla Music Easel

Just a collection of anything I like which features a Buchla instrument or sounds like a Krell piece.

BUCHLA KRELL HEAVEN

This is the recording of a live improvisation performed at Freerotation festival in Wales.
I was seated on the floor of the yurt with the audience so as to give us the experience of travelling together.
Thanks to Steevio for making it possible and to everyone who was there experiencing it with me.

The following machines were used-
Buchla Music Easel
Electro Harmonix 45000
Strymon blueSky
Sony PCM-D50 recorder

Freerotation 2015

Anthony Child - Live improvisation at Freerotation, Wales 11th July 2015

A live improvisation by D.A.Wilson on an extremely rare 1982 Buchla 400-T computer controlled 6-voice hybrid synth (digital "arbitrary" oscillators into analog filters) running MIDAS-III complete with flat pressure sensitive Touch Controller housed in a custom Teak solid wood cabinet awakens during return to operation and overhaul and Lotharek Rev.F HxC virtual floppy disk retrofit at Hideaway Studio.

The touch keyboard was a nightmare to get used and it took a great deal of my concentration to perform this as the pressure-to-pitch modulation was pretty intense on the patch I'd dialled in that day but it certainly resulted in something from the heart.  The highly responsive playing surface opens up some interesting possibilites for expressive patch design and playing!

Original Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2015.

1982 Buchla 400 Awakens: Haute Tension

Buchla Music Easel using a modified version of Todd Barton's Krell patch. All sounds produced by Buchla with additional processing through Strymon El Capistan pedal.

Buchla Krell Patch 1 Edit 1

This is a track created in my video tutorial on Spectral Transfers for the Buchla 296e.  For the tutorial go to: https://youtu.be/82NB81o8mdY
Studio monitors recommended

296e Spectral Transfer Drone

Two tracks of a Buchla Music Easel recorded "live" separately then combined to replicate a "duel" between 2 Easels. The patches were based on Todd Barton's Krell and Homage to Morton Feldman patches.

Buchla Music Easel Duel 02 Edit 01

For this track, I'm using a Buchla Easel program card that Todd Barton designed which creates randomness for each key touch. I'm using that to modulate, well, everything it modulates. The steady beat is coming from the Benjolin to Aux in.

2016 - 12 - 30

An improvisational composition on the Buchla Music Easel using a program card designed by my dear friend Todd Barton. He calls it Pointillism and each touch on the keyboard results in a random event. Added to that is input from the Benjolin.

Buchla 2017 - 02 - 04

An improv performance - 22 Aug, 2009.
CC: Buchla Music Easel
SH: Eurorack

Live 22.08.09

My first live Buchla Easel moment. Its not mine but I have it on my workbench for some repairs and the owner let me use it.
Part of my monthly event LilleLyd at LilleKampen Café in Oslo.
Vid here: https://youtu.be/zi90-tdiUNg

Live at LilleKampen June 9th 2018 with Buchla Music Easel

Charles Cohen: Buchla Music Easel
Sean Hart: Buchla 200

18 Jan, 2013

Charles Buchla Music Easel, Sean Buchla 200

Video: https://youtu.be/qHFYNkLC2KA

Recording from I live stream where I started with an unpatched Buchla Easel, and let the patch and sounds evolve into gentle ambient noise.

The built in spring reverb of the Buchla was used, along with the KOMA BD 101 bucket brigade delay, and two Roland Space Echo tape echoes.

A fully improvised ambient noise set. Nothing pre-recorded, no computer, no loops - all played live on hardware synths, sequencers, tape echoes, spring reverbs. Enjoy!

Main players:
Buchla Easel
KOMA BBD 101
Roland Space Echo RE-150
Roland Space Echo RE-201

Performed, mixed and streamed live through a Soundcraft Signature 22MTK.

Buchla Easel Unpatched - Live Streaming YouTube 10 May 2020

Outsider soundscaper just visiting from outer space.

Buchla Music Easel Duel 02 Edit 01

Count BLAH