Doug McKechnie

McKechnie was highly active in the San Francisco music scene from 1968 to 1972, when he was forced to stop playing his synthesizer after it was sold.

McKechnie was a contemporary of Wendy Carlos and has been labelled a pioneer of early electronic music, although his work remained underground until the 2020s.

His sequencer-based style of music influenced future performers, including Tangerine Dream to whom his Moog was sold.

[3][6][9] In 1975, McKechnie founded the San Francisco Synthesizer Ensemble with Paul de Benedictis, John Lewis and Jim Purcell.

McKechnie and other members of the group used sounds sampled from striking the bridge's suspension cables with mallets to create the song.

The duo released an album on cassette, Inside Your Head (1984), under the moniker; it features musical collaborations and solo work between de Benedictis and McKechnie recorded during the early 1980s.

This pattern based style predated the Berlin school of synthesis, promoted by artists like Tangerine Dream.