[sdiy] Seq Boards/SDIY commune

[Peter Grenader]

I worked at Serge's during the bumper-sticker as faceplates/Darryl Johansen
period when Serge was doing all the work for Tonto and he was in that place
at Western and Santa Monica you mention.  Usually had to step over a few
sleeping people to get in in the morning. It was a great experience though -
a lot of great things were going on there then.

My first year at Cal Arts was the year after Serge had left and started his
endeavor.  The way the story is told there,  it wasn't so much a problem
with system time. Cal Arts had three Buchla studios then: B-305 (a huge
100), B-303 (a huge 200) and B-304 (a prototype 300 system. There is a
picture of B-304 circa about 1975 on the web at:

http://www.winona.msus.edu/MUSIC/filmtopicsfornet/electronicmusic/Index_5.ht
ml

Notice the two Dolby B's on top.  They were truly horrible.  The patch chord
rack was made from a circle table forks. Anyway, you could always get into
one of the three studios - it was just a question of what time of day.  The
problem was the affordablility to do Buchla-type things in a home studio
environment without the Buchla-type money required to do that.  The
Tcherepnins did just that.  They were extremely versitile and (back then)
very competitively priced. That part has all changed now, but they are still
great machines.

best,

Peter




on 2/9/02 8:26 PM, denshi at denshiblocks at yahoo.com wrote:

> 
>> Hang in there man.. Anybody want to start a
>> synth-diy commune in the desert
> 
> im scared of large open spaces (like deserts and
> oceans, wacky since i live between both), but there
> has to be someplace between san diego and berkeley.
> 
> i actually live a few blocks down from the hollywood
> workshops where the serge modulars were made (i think
> its a shoe store now).  but serge started similar to
> this i believe.  some students and instructors at
> CalArts couldnt get time on the buchla system so they
> decided to make their own systems!  i like that
> attitude.
> 
> ive got a solder iron and youthful exuberence!
> 
> denshiblocks at yahoo.com
> 
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