Here's Charles Cohen playing a beautiful and incredibly rare (only 14 were ever made) Buchla Music Easel. Be sure to click through to the Vimeo page and view full screen for true high def (embedded videos aren't in HD, they're just a lot crisper than YouTube). Here's Charles talking about the Music Easel: "I've been playing The Buchla Music Easel since 1976. With it's color-coded slide pots, it's musically logical panel layout, and it's almost sculptural patching system, I can comprehend the state of the instrument with a fleeting glance. The touch-sensitive, capacitance-activated keyboard responds smoothly at the speed of light to the slightest skin contact, and it's assorted control voltage outputs can be directed to sonic and structural perameters very quickly. The potential to supplely flow into and amongst all the basic electronic sound forms is literally at my fingertips. I am happy when I'm playing this instrument." I'm happy just watching...
Posted by Tom Whitwell.
Wow, I did not expect to see this on your blog. Charles lives/performs in Philadelphia. His was one of the first shows I saw when moving here and a big reason why I became interested in old synth gear. He's a real nice guy too, here's his myspace: http://www.myspace.com/beepsandboops
