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Donald Buchla used to invent electronic music instruments. And though those instruments resemble what we know as synthesizers, and work in much the same way, Buchla insisted that they are not synthesizers.

« I wouldn’t call anything that I’ve built a synthesizer. I first started designing members of the electronic family of instruments in 1962. My own interests are in moving away from any traditions. We’re tradition bound. We have concepts of what music is, and what is and what is not music. We have virtuosity, that is performance technique, developed after years of study and centuries of tradition. We have instruments that have been refined and refined, generation after generation. So music as we know it is rooted in a great deal of tradition, and is resistant to change on many levels: the instrumental, the performance, and the listening levels.

I’m not well-rooted in any of the traditions and I’d like to investigate the sonic experience in a very general way…

 like to regard an instrument as consisting of three major parts: an input structure that we contact physically, an output structure that generates the sound, and a connection between the two. The electronic family of instruments offers us the limitation, if we approach it traditionally, and the freedom if we approach it in a new way, of total independence between input and output. And in fact the necessity of some way of generating a connection between the two. Language becomes an important aspect in the electronic family of instruments, where it had played no part with all traditional acoustic instruments. The relationship between input and output is fixed with traditional instruments; it’s totally flexible thanks to the routing of the patch cords established by human intelligence working through sophisticated electronics. Therein lies the exciting possibilities of electronic instruments: the instantaneous remapping of the relationship between input gesture and output response. » 

"Modulisme," formerly "Early ElectroMIX," is a platform that aims to support original composing for analog modular systems but not only… A radio program airing music made using modular systems… Each program lasts one hour and is especially dedicated to one composer and features some exclusive music made for us.

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