Click to make donation We'll read the Introduction alongside two chapters, glancing over the Moog's journey into Bay Area counterculture in parallel with the invention of the Buchla Box. Through the book's narrative, we'll explore how East Coast synthesizers entangled with San Francisco's psychedelic music scene, and how musicians formed a strange new intimacy with "popping and pouring" music machine designed by Don Buchla. Together, these chapters chart how a piece of electronic hardware became a vehicle for experimentation and a whole range of new genres that define our music culture, listening experience, and surrounding soundscape today.
🗓 November 15, 2026
🕛 Time: 12–2 PM
📍2665 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94110
🎟 RSVP: https://luma.com/kxrxj1xp
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Reading:
Pinch, T. J., & Trocco, F. (2002). Analog days: The invention and impact of the Moog synthesizer. Harvard University Press.
Chapters:
Introduction, pp. 1-11; Buchla’s Box, pp. 32-52; In Love with a Machine, pp. 155-170.
Cost: sliding scale