Frank Browne
Final Approach
Anyone who became musically aware in 60's and 70's knows who Robert Moog was. I was a huge ELP fan myself and saw them in concert 3 times. This guy was the biggest inovator since les Paul.
Robert A. Moog
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound, revolutionizing music in the 1960s and opening the wave that became electronica, died Sunday. He was 71.
Moog died at his home, according to his company's Web site. An inoperable brain tumor had been detected in April.
A childhood interest in the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, would lead Moog to a create a career and business that tied the name Moog — which rhymes with vogue — as tightly to synthesizers as the name Les Paul is to electric guitars.
In 1964, as a Ph.D. student in engineering physics at Cornell University, Moog developed his first voltage-controlled synthesizer modules with composer Herb Deutsch. By the end of that year, R.A. Moog Co. marketed the first commercial modular synthesizer.
The arrival of the synthesizer came just as The Beatles and other musicians started seeking ways to fuse psychedelic-drug experiences with their art. The Beatles used a Moog synthesizer on their 1969 album "Abbey Road"; a Moog was used to create an eerie sound on the soundtrack to the 1971 film "A Clockwork Orange."
Along with rock, synthesizers developed since Moog's breakthrough helped inspire elements of 1970s funk, hip-hop, and techno.
Robert A. Moog
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound, revolutionizing music in the 1960s and opening the wave that became electronica, died Sunday. He was 71.
Moog died at his home, according to his company's Web site. An inoperable brain tumor had been detected in April.
A childhood interest in the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, would lead Moog to a create a career and business that tied the name Moog — which rhymes with vogue — as tightly to synthesizers as the name Les Paul is to electric guitars.
In 1964, as a Ph.D. student in engineering physics at Cornell University, Moog developed his first voltage-controlled synthesizer modules with composer Herb Deutsch. By the end of that year, R.A. Moog Co. marketed the first commercial modular synthesizer.
The arrival of the synthesizer came just as The Beatles and other musicians started seeking ways to fuse psychedelic-drug experiences with their art. The Beatles used a Moog synthesizer on their 1969 album "Abbey Road"; a Moog was used to create an eerie sound on the soundtrack to the 1971 film "A Clockwork Orange."
Along with rock, synthesizers developed since Moog's breakthrough helped inspire elements of 1970s funk, hip-hop, and techno.
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Oh well, takes all kinds I suppose.
