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Started by Leo Bergman (@leo_bergman) ·

fell into the east coast vs west coast synthesis argument

Moog, in upstate New York, built around a piano-style keyboard and filtering bright waveforms down. Buchla, in California, mostly skipped the piano keyboard for touch-sensitive plates and went for complex oscillators and wave shaping. Both started building modules around 1963-64.

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How I got here

Started with
“buchla vs moog difference”
Ended at
Eurorack

The Trail

  1. “buchla vs moog difference” (google.com)
  2. Don Buchla (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. San Francisco Tape Music Center (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. Morton Subotnick (en.wikipedia.org)
  5. Silver Apples of the Moon (Morton Subotnick album) (en.wikipedia.org)

    commissioned by a record label as an album, not a concert piece

  6. Subtractive synthesis (en.wikipedia.org)
  7. Eurorack (en.wikipedia.org)

    a mix of both camps now. explains the state of my desk

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