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  Robert Moog - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
When Moog (rhymes with "vogue") unveiled the Moog music synthesizer in 1965, his engineering skills combined with a bit of business luck to radically change the way music was made.
The Moog was modular: You used patch cords to select your waveform (the sound's timbre) and frequency (pitch), and plugged in the interface -- a keyboard, instead of the binary code on paper that had defined the first RCAs.
Significantly, Moog's was the first synthesizer to use attack-decay-sustain-release (ADSR) envelopes, set with four different knobs, which control the qualities of a sound's onset, intensity and fade.
dir.salon.com /people/bc/2000/04/25/moog/index.html   (844 words)

  
  Bob Moog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moog created the first modern, realtime playable and reconfigurable music synthesizer in 1963 and demonstrated it at the AES convention the following year.
Bob Moog bought back the Moog Music name in 2002 and produced a new version of the Minimoog called the Minimoog Voyager.
Moog gave an enthusiastically received public keynote lecture at NIME-04, the international conference on New interfaces for musical expression, held in Hamamatsu, Japan's "City of Musical Instruments", in June, 2004.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Moog   (1253 words)

  
 Robert Moog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Dr Robert A. Moog (born May 23, 1934) is the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
Robert Moog created the first playable modern configurable music synthesizer in 1963, and showed it at the AES convention in 1964.
Moog also established standards for analog synthesizer control interfacing, with a logarithmic 1-volt-per-octave pitch control and a separate pulse triggering signal.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/robert_moog   (655 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Bob Moog
The Bob Moog Foundation was founded after the death of Bob Moog in 2005.
The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Robert Moog.
The first model of the Moog Taurus bass pedal synthesizer was created and manufactured by Moog Music in the mid 1970s.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bob-Moog   (3032 words)

  
 Thoughts On Bob Moog's Passing | Neural Gourmet
Bob Moog was one of those people, for myself and countless others (who may not even have known of his existence).
Robert Moog, inventor of the modular analog synthesizer, popularizer and champion of electronic music passed away on August 22, 2005 at the age of 71 after a four month battle with brain cancer.
You may wish to donate to the Bob Moog Charitable Foundation recently formed by Bob's family for the advancement of electronic music.
www.neuralgourmet.com /moogmemorial   (1248 words)

  
 Robert Moog : Bob Moog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Dr Robert A. Dr Robert A. Moog (born May 23, 1934) is the inventor of the Moog synthesizer[?].
The first instruments were modular synthesizers, and Moog broke into the mass market with the Minimoog an all-in-one instrument.
After many years, Bob Moog is making electronic musical instruments again, with a new company, Big Briar.
www.termsdefined.net /bo/bob-moog.html   (483 words)

  
 reveries - cool news of the day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
R.A. Moog, and began selling "mail-order kits for theremins, the earliest kind of electronic instruments." He introduced his first synthesizer in 1964, and by the end of the decade, his customers included the Doors, the Grateful Dead, the Stones and the Beatles.
That Bob Moog "understood better than other electronics pioneers that musicians make emotional connections with their instruments," is another key to his success, as he "sought out the players' feedback and responded to their needs." And yet the success came to a sudden halt in the early 1970s, when synthesizers fell out of fashion.
Bob Moog, now 70, says his sales are strong, having "grown to $3 million from $1 million over the last two years," for his company, now called Moog Music, www.moogmusic.com.
www.reveries.com /coolnews/2004/september/sep_29.html   (668 words)

  
 Adventures In Sound: Bob Moog in Indiana
Seeing Moog’s name and Lyons, Indiana in the same sentence was so unbelievable to me I was sure it was either a big joke to which I was the punchline, or a cruel hoax my wife concocted.
Moog (pronounced Mogue, like rogue with a long o, although I still pronounce it Moog as in, the plastic cow goes......moooooog) humbly introduced himself to those who were not familiar with his name or his work, and began his slide show.
Moog was there to lecture and put on small workshops for the kids (lucky little twits!).
wlt4.home.mindspring.com /adventures/articles/moog.htm   (1945 words)

  
 Wendy Carlos OnBobMoog
Bob asked me to fly up to Trumansburg to work with him on the script, then I rushed back to assemble something for the Fall 1967 AES Convention.
It was a kick for Bob to regain legal use of his own name for his company more recently (wotta concept!), and he actively participated as the electroacoustic field matured and eventually became taken for granted.
Bob was in it for all his life, starting as a teenager building Theremins, to new devices for Raymond Scott, to the synthesizer developments of the past four decades.
www.wendycarlos.com /moog/index.html   (2769 words)

  
 > BOB MOOG & RAYMOND SCOTT | Official Raymond Scott site | RaymondScott.com
Bob Moog, who visited me occasionally at my lab on Long Island, was among the first to see and witness the performance of my UJT-Relay sequencer.
I must say Bob Moog is a most honorable person.
Bob Moog's academic degrees include a BS in Physics from Queens College (NYC), a BS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University (NYC), and a PhD in Engineering Physics from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY).
raymondscott.com /moog.html   (2239 words)

  
 Synthmuseum.com - Moog
One of Moog's thereminists was Herbert Deutsch, a composer.
Moog and Deutsch met in 1963 at a conference.
When he left, the Norlin people, in their infinite wisdom, decided the right way to select the president of Moog Music was to hire an industrial psychiatrist and give intelligence tests to four people: Luce, Gullo, sales manager, Neil Smith, and marketing manager Herb Deutsch [who, incidentally, had been with Bob Moog from the start].
www.synthmuseum.com /moog   (3008 words)

  
 Bob Moog: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Before Moog's invention, synthesizers were big, unruly instruments that could easily take up a whole room (laboratory).
In 1971, the name of the company was changed to Moog Music, Inc. Two years later, the company became a division of Norlin Music, Inc., with Moog serving as president of Moog Music until 1977.
Moog's career is sprinkled with awards: honorary doctorates from Polytechnic University (New York and Lycoming College, the Silver Medal of The Audio Engineering Society, the Trustee's Award of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Bilboard Magazine Trendsetter's Award, and the SEAMUS award from the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States.
music.com /person/bob_moog/1   (494 words)

  
 MTV News | Bob Moog, Synthesizer Inventor, Dies At 71   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Moog earned degrees in physics, electrical engineering and engineering physics before staring out on a path that would turn him into an icon for generations of modern musicians.
Moog's synthesizers, which came with a piano-style keyboard, quickly became popular with rock musicians, who appreciated the wide range of unique sounds they could create by adjusting the various controls.
Moog reached a bigger audience in 1971 with his more portable Minimoog Model D, which had an even wider range of variations.
www.mtv.com /news/articles/1508021/20050822/index.jhtml?headlines=true   (322 words)

  
 > BOB MOOG & RAYMOND SCOTT | Official Raymond Scott site | RaymondScott.com
Bob Moog, who visited me occasionally at my lab on Long Island, was among the first to see and witness the performance of my UJT-Relay sequencer.
I must say Bob Moog is a most honorable person.
Bob Moog's academic degrees include a BS in Physics from Queens College (NYC), a BS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University (NYC), and a PhD in Engineering Physics from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY).
www.raymondscott.com /moog.html   (2225 words)

  
 Bob Moog, Interviewed by Electronicmusic.com
Electronicmusic.com talks with synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog about how he radically changed the way music is made, and the tools he used to do it.
Bob Moog: No, there was no one defining moment.
I once had the pleasure of playing a modular Moog synthesizer in a studio in London and remember wondering which module actually came first.
www.kurzweilai.net /articles/art0399.html?m%3D7   (1289 words)

  
 :::::: MOOG MUSIC ::::::
Bob Moog’s namesake analog synthesizers have affected popular music in ways he might not have expected back in 1954 when he began building theremins with his father.
Moog synthesizers were widely used by professional musicians and the “Sound of the Moog” became an integral part of our musical culture.
Perhaps back in 1954, Bob Moog and his father were only trying to make something cool, to create a sound that as of yet was only in the realm of imagination, never dreaming how far their invention would take the Moog name.
www.moogmusic.com /history.php   (1537 words)

  
 A Legend Passes Into History-Tribute to Bob Moog
But aside from his many accomplishments, we loved Bob because he was a fine and generous man who had a sharp sense of humor and a desire to help others succeed.
I had the honor of working with Bob to develop the article, and it took us almost a year, but when it was done, we had a classic story.
Bob Moog was among the greatest of them all, and his legacy will shine on as long as electronic musicians remember their roots.
emusician.com /ar/legend_passes_history/index.html   (647 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Bob Moog
Readers vicariously experience the thrill of discovery Moog and his contemporaries felt in creating something totally new, seeing synthesizers not as profit-making machines, but as instruments with their own unpredictable quirks and qualities.
Moog and Carlos collaborated often to refine the functionality of the synth, a process Carlos outlines on the 1987 recording Secrets of Synthesis.
Hans Fjellestad's whimsical 2004 documentary Moog opts not to establish a definitive portrait of the synthesizer's origins, but rather to paint a character sketch of Moog as a person whose innate, bottomless curiosity about the world around him are reflected in the intuitive nature of the instruments he built.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.14.05/moog-0537.html   (740 words)

  
 Voyager By Bob Moog
Unfortunately, Moog Music UK, the manufacturer of the Welsh jobbies, went bankrupt rather quickly, and the Macbeth instrument, while a fine synthesizer, is a module, not a keyboard.
With Don Martin's Moog Music Inc defunct, and Moog CE renamed, Bob Moog was then free to rename Big Briar Moog Music Inc, and to undertake the development of the Minimoog Voyager.
If he developed something with the Moog name, he wouldn't currently be able to export it outside the UK under that name, for the same reasons that Bob Moog can't use his name on products sold inside the UK.
www.sospubs.co.uk /sos/jun03/articles/moogvoyager.asp   (9030 words)

  
 Robert Moog and The Moog Synthesiser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Robert Moog developed his ideas for an electronic instrument by starting out in 1961 building and selling Theremin kits and absorbing ideas about transistorised modular synthesisers from the German designer Harald Bode.
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.
Moog's synthesisers were designed in collaboration with the composers Herbert A. Deutsch, and Walter (later Wendy) Carlos.
www.obsolete.com /120_years/machines/moog   (294 words)

  
 Official Keith Emerson Website - Dr. Robert Moog: 1934 - 2005
Bob sat observing what was so obviously an impractical exercise without saying a word.
Having successfully retrieved his luggage it therefore amused him greatly to notice that left, going round and round on the conveyer belt, was just a handle with the baggage tag still attached...and somebody actually claiming it without complaining.
I was very excited when Bob attended an early 70's ELP concert for the first time and had him sit on stage and out of view of the audience behind my speakers.
www.keithemerson.com /MiscPages/RememberingBobMoog.html   (632 words)

  
 Bob Moog - A Rememberance
Bob had other artists-in-residence visiting the "factory" in Trumansburg and it seems as if we had years to setup incredible audio gadgetry, to experiment, try "this" and "that"...
Originally, Bob never thought that the instruments would be used for "live" performances; the first thought was that they would be teaching tools, classroom bound, and then would find a place in serious experimental recording studios.
With only gentle fanfare, and Bob's quiet yet intense demeanor, the musical landscape was irrevocably changing and the lives of millions of musicians and listeners were being altered, even if they were not immediately aware of it.
www.bostonaudiosociety.org /moog.htm   (1022 words)

  
 BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT MOOG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Robert Moog was born in 1934, in New York City.
In 1971, the name of the company was changed to Moog Music, Inc, and in 1973 the company became a division of Norlin Music, Inc. Moog served as president of Moog Music until 1977.
Moog's awards include honorary doctorates from Polytechnic University (New York City) and Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania); the Silver Medal of The Audio Engineering Society; the Trustee's Award of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; the Bilboard Magazine Trendsetter's Award; and the SEAMUS award from the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States.
hibp.ecse.rpi.edu /~connor/moog.html   (298 words)

  
 Bob Moog
Robert Moog, the man whose musical synthesizers bore his name, died of a brain tumor Sunday at his home in Asheville, North Carolina.
The Beatles used a Moog synthesizer on their 1969 Abbey Road album and the instrument was later used by Manfred Mann, the group Yes and Herbie Hancock.
Moog changed the way music was produced, and ultimately the way it sounded.
www.yoursdaily.com /science_tech/bob_moog   (164 words)

  
 Bob Moog Dead at 71   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Moog's instruments were featured prominently in work by Walter Carlos, Isao Tomita, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, The Beatles, Yes, Devo, Stereolab, Stevie Wonder, hundreds of "switched-on" records, Giorgio Moroder, and electronica artists everywhere.
The Moog synthesizer was rapidly adopted, and the success of Walter (Wendy) Carlos' Switched-On Bach led to an explosion of Moog-themed recordings.
Moog is survived by his wife, Ileana, his five children, Laura Moog Lanier, Matthew Moog, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Renee Moog, and Miranda Richmond; and the mother of his children, Shirleigh Moog.
www.synthtopia.com /news/05_08/Bob_Moog_Remembered.html   (675 words)

  
 Moog Tribute Project
This was not always the case, and Moog was one of the pivotal pioneers of synthesised sound.
What Moog did, in 1964, was to produce and market a practical instrument, a small keyboard synth which could be used with relative ease.
In tribute to the sad death of Bob Moog I have produced a track in Bob's honour written soley using the only Moog equipment I could muster - which is the Arturia Moog Modular and Minimoog softsynths.
www.ticalun.net /music/MoogTribute.aspx   (543 words)

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