Library of Congress: Morton Subotnick & the Buchla 100
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Composer and electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick offers some background and insights into his work with the famed Buchla 100, which he used to create the genre-defining album Silver Apples of the Moon. Recently restored, Subotnick's original Buchla 100 will be on display and some of its possible sounds demonstrated by the participants.
The Buchla 100 was restored as part of a broader "knowledge exchange and innovation funding" project funded by University College London. This was a collaboration between Andrew Northrop (Film and Media Technician, Slade School of Fine Art), the Library of Congress Music Division and the MEMS Project (Chip Flynn & Mark Milanovich).
The project saw the repair of the Buchla 100 as an opportunity to extensively research and document the unique and historic equipment, with high resolution photographs of each module and a short documentary shot on 16mm film as part of its output. The repair was carried out in March of 2024.
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