What we’ve done

Over the last twenty years, we have worked with many researchers, publications, and institutions—both by assisting with research and by undertaking high-level restorations of historical Buchla systems/instruments. Below is a partial list of clients we’ve worked with as well as publications and media we have furnished with historical documents in support of their projects.

Institutions

  • The Library of Congress - Washington D.C., USA

  • Mills College Center for Contemporary Music - California, USA

  • New York University (NYU) - New York, USA

  • State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook - New York, USA

  • Sarah Lawrence College - New York, USA

  • National Music Centre (NMC) - Alberta, Canada

  • University of Victoria - British Columbia, Canada

  • Simon Fraser University - British Columbia, Canada

  • Sonoma State College - California, USA

  • San Jose State University - California, USA

  • University of California San Diego (UCSD) - California, USA

  • The Evergreen State College - Washington, USA

  • Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project (EMEAPP) - Pennsylvania, USA

Artists

  • Richard James - Aphex Twin

  • Tom Rowlands - The Chemical Brothers

  • Morton Subotnick - for the Library of Congress

  • Donald Buchla - Buchla & Associates

  • Suzanne Ciani

Publications

  • Electronic Perspectives: Vintage Electronic Musical Instruments - Dr. Tom Rhea

  • The Synthesizer: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music Instrument - Mark Vail, Oxford University Press

  • Patch & Tweak: Exploring Modular Synthesis - Kim Bjorn & Chris Meyer, BJOOKS Publishing

  • The Musical Art of Synthesis - Sam McGuire & Nathan Van Der Rest, Routledge

  • Toward a Musicology of Interfaces - Emily I. Dolan, Keyboard Perspectives

  • Creating Sounds from Scratch: A Practical Guide to Music Synthesis for Producers and Composers - Scott B. Metcalf, Andrea Pejrolo, Oxford University Press

  • Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries - Joseph Auner, W. W. Norton & Company

  • “Synthesizer Pioneers” 2022–2023 18-Month Calendar - Bob Moog Foundation

Along with the list above, The Buchla Archives has contributed historical photographs and text to a number of online and physical publications, including Keyboard Magazine, Electronic Musician, as well as Vintage Synth Explorer and Matrixsynth. 

Media & Activities 

  • “Archaeology of the Synthesizer: Buchla | A Documentary Dedicated to the Buchla Synthesizer and its Inventor Don Buchla” - French Radio Interview; Alexandre Bazin, 2023

  • Psychedelicized: The Electric Circus Story - Documentary, directed by Larry Confino, 2023

  • Don Buchla Memorial Concerts - San Francisco, CA, 2017

  • “The Work of Donald Buchla” - Exhibit at Moogfest, Asheville, NC, 2014 

  • Buchla - Documentary by Clarity Films, 2013

  • “Genesis of an Instrument: the Work of Donald Buchla” - Exhibit at New Forms Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2013