Great sounds once again. I swear the Serge stuff just sounds so natural. Woody and watery. Awesome.
-- farkas
Not surprising if you know the history...Serge Tcherepnin cooked up a set of basic modules with a lot of the sound based on Buchla gear. He came up with it because there was too much squabbling going on over CalArts' Buchla gear, so what he did was to set up an ad hoc "assembly line" that had builders setting up soldering stations on courtyard balconies there, passing the modules from one balcony to the next...builders paid for the boards and components, plus a prepunched panel full of holes which you then covered with a paper control panel layout then jammed the pot shafts and jacks through this.
Quite an interesting cast of characters were in the assembly line, too...two that I know of offhand were Kevin Braheny (best known for his Hearts of Space releases back in the 1980s/90s) and Chaz Smith (instrument builder and steel guitarist extraordinaire). But that Serge sound owes a lot to the Buchla 100 and the beginnings of the 200 systems.