What I'm listening to today: "It’s techno time", Marie Ann Hedonia
It's techno time!!!!!!!!!
What I'm listening to today: "Sarah Belle Reid plays the Buchla Touché"
I think of myself as pretty informed on "weird" synths and this one is, to me, REALLY WEIRD.
This is a hyper-rare (they made four. ever) synth, one of the earliest computer-controlled synths, you could reprogram its behaviour using a one-off Forth-like developed just for this device and for this track they made it… not… act like… a piano.
It's… otherworldly. IMO remove all distractions to watch it
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By the way, if the odd device in this video interests you, a few days afterward Reid dropped an hourlong documentary video about the Buchla Touché. I haven't watched it yet, but doing some Google research, it appears the actual majority of all existing information on the Internet about the Touché comes from this 2026 video.
Questions I assume it answers:
- How similar is this to the later Buchla 400, etc?
- What happened to the other three units, besides the one in the museum in Vancouver?