In 1963,
Don Buchla created his first
Modular Electronic
Music System for composer
Morton
Subotnick.
Unlike Bob Moog’s modular synthesizer that
focused on traditional keyboard controllers, Buchla’s mode of
operation with patch-chords and touch controller was not tied to
other extant instruments. As
Suzanne
Ciani,
an early and avid user of the Buchla 200, has said:
His
designs for instruments
were extraordinary. He
brought the thought process
of designing musical
instruments right down to
the origins of physical
human nature and music.
With
the ease and portability of MIDI, digital
recording
and
sampling
in
the
1990s,
the analog synthesizer moved to the margins of music production. Amid
resurgent
interest
in
analog
snythesizers,
the
Buchla
200e
was
introduced
in
2005.
Source of Uncertainty
provides
a
platform
for
some of the artists exploring this powerful instrument and discovering new ways to think about composition and performance.
