Charles Cohen at the Buchla Music Easel

[brileegmx]

I wish my grandpa could do that

[MrCamelneck]

Kind of reminds me of my ARP Odyssey Model 2800. It even has the same colorful, plastic slider caps.

Go Charlie, Go! :)

[Neijster]

Amazing sounds!

[windowlicker1]

i'd give a testicle to get my hands on one of these...

[toborexperiment]

Don, please build a 2011 easel....

[FraterSoddi]

This "thing" wasn't mass-produced at the time because Buchla never mass-produced anything. Besides, has anyone noted that it has no keyboard? That is a row of touch-sensitive voltage plates, tuned by pots. NO MIDI. Normal musicians rejected it because it was hard to program and it didn't fit in well with a band that only used standard tunings.

[Pc72]

Karlheinz Stockhausen meets Aphex Twin.

[Conkern65]

@Pc72 Fuck, yeah

[43932]

Very fun in 1970 but nothing very interesting

[smokingclowndog]

total psychotic craziness,all from this thing that looks like someone threw some phone parts into a hot wheels carrier.if this thing had been mass produced at the time,youtube would have been invented in 1987 and people would have been rickrolling in 1990

[potterpaint2000]

WONDER-FILLED!!

[antfactor]

Charles is da bomb... always. :)

[cameronscottcairney]

I'd swear I saw this man playing this instrument in n experimental band in philladelphia at my friends studio birthday party...about three years ago?

[cpu558]

@cameronscottcairney Tobacco of Black moth super rainbow??

[djbanizza]

Sounds great for ambient tracks :)

[phlizmo]

great

[8827180]

great job!what camera you using?

[cowpunk1978]

oh, this is so good.

[Thalassa77]

Hello , I've posted this video on switchedonsynthesizer.blogspot . com

Thanks

[angelometz]

Thank you!

[fahrigonzo]

how can you produce such organic sounds? its amazing.

[fahrigonzo]

my god this thing is alien!

[eggbertsmith]

FIRST!!!!

[eugenetongue]

truly fenomenal

unfortunately the synth is so rare