"The first Buchla Box, using touch-sensitive pads or ports rather than a standard keyboard, was funded with a $500 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Today it's permanently ensconced at Mills College. On a side note, Buchla estimates it would easily go for $30,000. Buchla still tackles new designs — he has a multichannel filter that can serve as a Vocoder coming out next month — and his instruments, it seems, "don't depreciate at all, so they're good investments."
'But I prefer to build them for playing.'"
You can find the full interview on sfbg. Note Don Buchla will be performing with Alessandro Cortini at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (SFEMF) tonight [previously posted].
I think it was funded, ordered, and partly conceived by the San Francisco tape music center (Morton Subotnick,Ramon Sender,etc). But yeah, the STMC was funded by Rockefeller foundation among others. I really recommend this book to anybody interested in the subject http://www.amazon.com/Francisco-Tape-Music-Center-Counterculture/dp/0520256174
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