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Nope! Touch was made while Mort was at still at NYU and on the 100.
Actually, the cut up/spliced human voice saying 'touch' at the beginning and
other places is his secretary/assistant he had there. Touch, the LP at
least, I don't believe had a picture. It was just the computer graphic of
the woman's face morphing into a rectangle (I think it was a rectangle)?

Anyway, Touch was done in 1969 and Cal Arts didn't exist until 1971. I
don't think the 200 was introduced until 1971 if I'm not mistaken.

Here's the story: The first piece Mort used the 200 was Sidewinder. It was
one of the systems that was intended for Cal Art's B303, but it was
delivered to Mort's house instead (whoops!) because the Cal Arts facility
wasn't completed yet and the school was still operating out a place called
Villa Cabrini which was a former catholic girls school in Burbank. The 200
stayed at Mort's for a while waiting for the Valencia campus and the studio
installation to be completed - the sound system, tape decks, etc.
Unfortunately (not!) that took longer than expected because of delays from
the 1971 Selmar earthquake, so Mort had it for a while and didn't Sidewinder
in the meantime.






kirkdegiorgio wrote:

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>> One can't judge the merits of the Buchla 200 on Subotnick's Touch - that
>> piece was done on a 100 system which is a completely different animal. I was
>> talking to
>>> Guido the other day, who was telling me that "Touch" by Subotnick
>>> exemplifies the sonic virtues of the 200. If that is so, well, it's
>>> not that impressive.
>
> actually Peter I thought Touch was made with the 200 Series - likewise
> Sidewinder, 4
> Butterflies and Until Spring. They are all early-mid 70's recordings and have
> 200 series
> photo's on the sleeve credits, etc. I thought it was Silver Apples and Wild
> Bull that used the
> 100 Series.
>
> Now, I'm no bug music fan but I find the sonic virtues displayed on these
> albums to be
> highly impressive! They have an organic timbre and controlled level of chaos
> that I find
> superior to other attempts at this type of music.
>
> I don't own a Buchla but the 200 series designs and the examples I've heard
> make me
> think it would be a nice system to get into regardless of the fact that I have
> a Serge/
> Modcan system. 200 series used prices are too high for me to justify and I'm
> worried
> about maintenance so the new 200e modules appeal even more to me. Again - on
> this list
> as on others people are being misleading in stating it costs $20k to buy the
> system. Its a
> MODULAR system and modules are available individually. So its as expensive as
> you want
> it to be - many will just want to buy a few modules to add to their existing
> 200 series
> systems - some may just want a small system based around the sequencer, etc.
> The $20k
> system is just a suggested example.
>
> Personally I'm waiting for actual user reports on reliability and just how
> digital some of the
> modules are...
>
> KD
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