Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith doesn’t play music so much as she paints it. At work behind her Buchla Music Easel, she crafts songs that twist and turn and are full of strange colors. The Los Angeles-based ...

The Philadelphia musician Charles Cohen, who's in his late sixties, plays a Buchla Music Easel, an arcane synthesizer built in limited quantities in the 1970s. He is primarily a performer and an ...

The pan-generational duo Suzanne Ciani and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith pay tribute to the modular synth pioneer. "Don Buchla made it possible for me to... Don Buchla believed in the humanity of wires. The ...

The Eternal Now: Jeffrey Perkins, standing, Marcia Bassett and Ted Gordon in performance earlier this year. (John Also Bennett/Rhizome) Review by Matthew Guerrieri One of the groovier manifestations ...

In avant garde music circles, Philadelphia musician Charles Cohen is something of a legend, the rare master of a synthesizer called the Buchla Music Easel. In 2011, he was named a Pew Fellow for his ...