Don Buchla

Donald Buchla is a synthesizer pioneer, born 18 April 1937 in South Gate, California. Buchla formed his electronic music equipment company, Buchla and Associates, in 1962 in Berkeley, California and in 1963 was commissioned by avant garde music composers Morton Subotnick and Ramon Sender, of the San Francisco Tape Music Center to create an electronic instrument for live performance. His first modular synthesizer, the Buchla Series 100 was completed in 1963, which he began selling in 1966.