Tonto's Expanding Head Band

The Profile

Electronic duo Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, creators/operators of the TONTO synthesizer, known for the influential album Zero Time and later collaborations as engineers/producers with other artists.

Creators of the TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra) modular synthesizer; released Zero Time (1971) and It's About Time; worked as collaborators/engineers with artists including Stevie Wonder.

The available review praises TONTO's Expanding Head Band as a foundational electronic-music project, highlighting Zero Time as a seminal, proto-glitch work. The review links the duo's sound to later electronic artists and notes their later role as supporting collaborators.