4/20/2008

The most beautiful piece of synth porn I've ever seen


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...
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:48 am

    Freakin' awesome. Great find.

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  2. Unknown1:56 pm

    Sorry - I just peed my pants. :)

    I could listen to it all day. I'm gonna start looking for music by Cohen and the other 13 people who own this masterpiece.

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  3. Clayton3:01 pm

    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

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  4. Unknown6:43 pm

    Thanks for the link, Clayton. I live in the Philly area, too, as does Howard Moscovitz, the top dog at Electro-music.com

    Awesome.

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  5. bzingr11:34 pm

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  6. bzingr11:36 pm

    so that explains the philly connection! i fondly remember seeing c.cohen make nice sounds there too.

    theres a great interview with buchla at the red bull music site:
    (http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/TUTORS.9.0.html?id=9&act_session=450)

    i posted this over at cdm, where i first saw this article, but thought you guys might be interested too.

    hey clayton, hope you're doing well - funny to see you here! - brendan

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  7. Anonymous4:16 am

    Ha, any one else notice the spark at 1:30. Kinda cool.

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