Bob Moog dies
p2pnet.net News:- Dr Robert Arthur “Bob” Moog, the man who invented the Moog synthesizer, yesterday died of a brain tumour.
“He was a gentle and humble man with a wonderful sense of humor and a brilliance that inspired millions around the world,” says his family on a memorial web page.
“Whilst attending a convention in the winter of ‘63, Moog was introduced to the idea of building new circuits that would be capable of producing sound,” says obsolete.com.
“In September 1964 he was invited to exhibit his circuits at the Audio Engineering Society Convention. Shortly afterwards in 1964 Moog begin to manufacture electronic music synthesisers. Moog’s synthesisers were designed in collaboration with the composers Herbert A. Deutsch, and Walter (later Wendy) Carlos.
“After the success of Carlos’s album ‘Switched on Bach’, entirely recorded using Moog synthesisers, Moog’s instruments made the first leap from the electronic avant garde, into commercial popular music. The Beatles bought one, as did Mick Jagger who bought a hugely expensive modular Moog in 1967 (unfortunately this instruments was only used once, as a prop on a film set and was later sold to the German experimentalist rockers, Tangerine Dream).
“Though setting a future standard for analogue synthesiser, the Moog Synthesiser Company did not survive the decade, larger companies such as Arp and Roland developed Moog’s protoypes into more sophisticated and cost effective instruments.”
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