Sarah Belle Reid

One of the really special instruments used in my new record, Times Undoing & Progress, is the Buchla Touché – a rare, polyphonic keyboard instrument designed by Donald Buchla and @davidrosenboom in the late 1970s – I recorded snippets of sound explorations during my visits to the buchla_archives, and then used those as sample material throughout the record.⁠
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My favorite part of this instrument is how it straddles the line between familiar/unfamiliar - the keyboard interface feels like something I know (and have expectations of), but the sound generation can be so wild and unpredictable (completely blowing those expectations away). To me, it invites a kind of chaos and playfulness into the mix, and it keeps me in the curious ‘what if?’ state of mind that I absolutely love.⁠
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I’ll be sharing a more in-depth behind the scenes video in the coming weeks of how I did a lot of the electronic sound design on this record, and more about the different instruments used 👀⁠
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If you have any questions you want me to answer in the video, let me know below!⁠
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