Teaser: The LSD-Covered Buchla Synth — A Trip Back to the 60s
11this is one of the earliest Buchla synthesizers, um, famous for its red module, which in the 60s was covered in LSD.
Um, no, no longer any LSD on, on that module. Students have worn that off. Yes, indeed. Uh, then a 1979 Surge synthesizer, uh, meant to be the quote, people's synthesizer, a more affordable option to. Moog and Buchla. Um, Moog was a undergraduate, uh, at in the electrical engineering program here when the center was founded.
Um, and his advisor was the technical director of the center who installed the RCA synthesizer in the other room.
—Seth Cluett, Director, Computer Music Center and Lecturer in Computer Music & Sound Studies at Columbia University
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