 Robert Moog Dr. Robert A. Moog (pronounced /moʊg/, not /muːg/) (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was a pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. A picture of Bob Moog of Moog Synthesizers. ...
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Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ...
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A classic FM synthesizer, the Yamaha DX7. ...
A native of New York City, he earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Queens College, New York in 1957, another in electrical engineering from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell University. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...
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He received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1970. The Grammy Trustees Award is awarded by the Recording Academy to individuals who, during their careers in music, have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording [1]. Through 1983, performers could also receive this award. ...
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He died of a glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor at the age of 71 in Asheville, North Carolina. The Bob Moog Foundation has been created as a memorial, with the aim of continuing his life's work of developing electronic music. Glioblastoma multiforme, also known as grade 4 astrocytoma is the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumor, accounting for 52 percent of all primary brain tumors cases. ...
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Development of the Moog synthesizer
The Moog synthesizer was one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments. Early developmental work on the components of the synthesizer occured at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, now the Computer Music Center. While there Moog developed the voltage controlled oscillators and ADSR envelope generators. The Computer Music Center (CMC) at Columbia University is the oldest center for electronic and computer music research in the United States. ...
A voltage-controlled oscillator or VCO is an electronic circuit that uses amplification, feedback and a resonant circuit to generate a repeating voltage waveform. ...
An ADSR envelope is a parameter used in synthesizers, including those that produce sound by subtractive synthesis, to control the sound produced. ...
 The Moog Music logo Moog created the first modern, realtime playable and reconfigurable music synthesizer in 1963 and demonstrated it at the AES convention the following year. It sometimes took hours to set up the machine for a new sound. The Moog Logo. ...
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Established in 1948, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) draws its membership from amongst engineers, scientists, manufacturers and other organisations and individuals with an interest or involvement in the professional audio industry. ...
Robert Moog employed his theremin company (R. A. Moog Co.) to manufacture and market his synthesizers. Unlike the few other 1960s synthesizer manufacturers, Moog shipped a piano-style keyboard as the standard user interface to his synthesizers. Moog also established standards for analog synthesizer control interfacing, with a logarithmic one volt-per-octave pitch control and a separate pulse triggering signal. Léon Theremin playing an early theremin The theremin or thereminvox (originally pronounced but often anglicized as [1]) is one of the earliest fully electronic musical instruments. ...
The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...
Roland EXR-3 Keyboard Three-year-old girl playing with a keyboard The musical keyboard, also known as the piano keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which produce notes. ...
The first Moog instruments were modular synthesizers. In 1971 Moog broke into the mass market with the Minimoog Model D, an all-in-one instrument. The Minimoog was a 44-key scaled-down version of Moog's custom modular synths and featured 3 oscillators with six selectable waveshapes, an oscillator mixer, a pitch wheel and a modulation wheel. The third oscillator could also function as an LFO (low frequency oscillator). The Minimoog became the most popular monophonic synthesizer of the 1970s, selling approximately 13,000 units between 1971 and 1982. Sine, square, triangle, and sawtooth waveforms The modular synthesizer is an early type of synthesizer consisting of separate modules which must be connected by wires to create a so called patch. ...
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The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Robert Moog. ...
Low frequency oscillaton, often abbreviated to LFO, is a term that predominantly refers to an audio technique specifically used in the production of electronic music. ...
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Another widely used and extremely popular synth of Moog's was the Taurus bass pedal synthesizer. Released in 1975, its pedals were similar in design to organ pedals and triggered synthetic bass sounds. The Taurus was known for a "fat" bass sound and was used by musicians such as Genesis, Rush, U2, Yes, The Police, Yngwie Malmsteen and many others. Production of the original was discontinued in 1981, when it was replaced by the Taurus II. The first model of the Moog Taurus bass pedal synthesizer was created and manufactured by Moog Music in the mid 1970s. ...
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The Casavant pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal The organ is a keyboard musical instrument with a distinctive sound, nowadays produced in several ways but originally produced by pipes. ...
Genesis is a British progressive rock group that was formed in 1967 when founding members Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks were still students at Charterhouse School. ...
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Yes in concert in Indianapolis in 1977 (left to right, Steve Howe, Alan White, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman) The popular music group Yes is a progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968. ...
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Yngwie J. Malmsteen (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a guitarist from Sweden who achieved widespread acclaim in the 1980s due to his technical proficiency and fusion of classical music elements with heavy rock guitar. ...
Moog synth in culture It is believed that the first record to feature a Moog synthesizer was Cosmic Sounds by The Zodiac. The first popular music album to feature the instrument was Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd. by The Monkees. Wendy Carlos released major Moog albums in 1968 and 1969: Switched-On Bach and The Well-Tempered Synthesizer. The former earned Carlos three Grammys. Also in 1969, The Beatles used a Moog throughout the Abbey Road album. It was also featured prominately on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's song "Lucky Man," Keith Emerson's Moog solo at the end making it arguably the group's most popular piece. Another popular Moog user was Tangerine Dream in the electronic landmark Phaedra album 1974. 33â…“ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ...
Cosmic Sounds (1967) was the only album recorded by The Zodiac. ...
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The Monkees in 1967 (left to right): Michael Nesmith, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork The Monkees were a four-man band who appeared in an American television series of the same name, which ran on NBC from 1966 to 1968. ...
Wendy Carlos in 1980 Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos -- see Personal life section below -- November 14, 1939 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is an American composer and electronic musician. ...
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Switched On Bach is a 1968 album by Wendy Carlos on CBS Records . ...
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer is a 1969 album released by Wendy Carlos following her groundbreaking Switched On Bach in the previous year. ...
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The Beatles (L-R, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon), in 1964, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show promoting their first U.S. hit song, I Want To Hold Your Hand, and ushering in the British Invasion of American popular music. ...
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were a British progressive rock group. ...
Keith Emerson (born November 2, 1944) is a British keyboard player and composer. ...
Tangerine Dream is a German group that specializes in electronic music. ...
In Greek mythology, Phaedra was the mother of Demophon and Acamas by Theseus. ...
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A popular Moog user (and programmer) in recent times remains Stevie Wonder who went on to win numerous Grammy awards in 1973 for his synthesizer rich Talking Book and also in 1974 where he grabbed the 'Album of the Year' award with yet another Moog-tinted album Innervisions. Stevie Wonder is a legend in rock and pop music history. ...
Talking Book is an album by Lindsay Hartley. ...
Innervisions is an album by Stevie Wonder, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music). ...
Popularity surged in the 1970s then declined in the 1980s as digital synthesizers gained traction in the market. By the mid-1990s, analog synthesizers were again highly sought after and prized for their classic sound. As of 2004, more than 15 companies are making Moog-style synthesizer modules. A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds. ...
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Company and market history In 1972 Moog had changed his company name to Moog Music. It went through various changes of ownership, eventually being bought out by musical instrument manufacturer Norlin. Norlin produced a number of synthesizers under the Moog name, but they were less successful than Moog's own designs. Moog Music closed its doors in 1987. 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...
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After leaving his namesake firm, Bob Moog started making electronic musical instruments again with a new company, Big Briar. Their first specialty was theremins, but by 1999 they expanded to producing a line of analog effects pedals under the moogerfooger moniker. Big Briar Inc. ...
1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Effects pedals are electronic devices used by musicians, primarily electric guitar players, to alter the sound quality or timbre of electric or electronic instruments, and less often vocals picked up through microphones. ...
moogerfoogerâ„¢ is the trademark for a series of analog effects pedals manufactured by Moog Music. ...
Also in 1999, Bob partnered with Bomb Factory to co-develop the first digital effects based on Moog technology in the form of plug-ins for Pro Tools software. Bomb Factory is a recording studio and manufacturer of music plugins based in Los Angeles, California. ...
A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that can, or must, interact with another program to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. ...
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Bob Moog bought back the Moog Music name in 2002 and produced a new version of the Minimoog called the Minimoog Voyager. The Voyager includes nearly all of the features of the model D, as well as a variable waveshape controller, dedicated LFO, FM capabilities with oscillator 3, and expansion capabilities via the Moogerfooger effects and the VX-351 Voyager Expander. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Robert Moog. ...
Frequency modulation (FM) is a form of modulation which represents information as variations in the instantaneous frequency of a carrier wave. ...
Theremin
 Bob Moog with a theremin Robert Moog constructed his own theremin as early as 1949. Later he described a theremin in the hobbyist magazine Electronics World and offered a kit of parts for the construction of the Electronic World's Theremin, which became very successful. In the late 1980s Moog repaired the original theremin of Clara Rockmore, an accomplishment which he considers as a high point of his professional career. He also helped to produce her album The Art of the Theremin. In 1996 he published another do-it-yourself theremin guide. Today, Moog Music is the leading manufacturer of performance-quality theremins. A picture of Bob Moog and a thermin. ...
Léon Theremin playing an early theremin The theremin or thereminvox (originally pronounced but often anglicized as [1]) is one of the earliest fully electronic musical instruments. ...
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Clara Rockmore (born Clara Reisenberg, 1911 - 1998 in Vilnius, Lithuania), along with Lydia Kavina, is considered to be one of the two greatest players of the Theremin electronic musical instrument since its invention and was without peer in the early decades of its use. ...
Pronunciation The surname Moog is one of the most frequently mispronounced names in popular culture. The following interview excerpt reveals the correct pronunciation: - — Reviewer: First off: Does your name rhyme with "vogue" or is like a cow’s "moo" plus a "G" at the end?
- — Dr. Robert Moog: It rhymes with vogue. That is the usual German pronunciation. My father's grandfather came from Marburg, Germany. I like the way that pronunciation sounds better than the way the cow's "moo-g" sounds. [1]
In a deleted scene from the DVD version of the documentary Moog, Dr. Moog describes the three pronunciations of the name Moog: the original, Dutch pronunciation ("moch"), the later, German pronunciation (the preferred, rhymes with vogue), and the more common pronunciation in English-speaking countries (with the long o sound). Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the Lahn river. ...
Dr. Moog reveals that different parts of his family prefer different pronunciations of the name, but he (and most certainly his wife) prefers the German pronunciation.
Recent work Dr. 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. Musician with a multimodal instrument based on electromyography, position sensing, and acoustically resonant bowls. ...
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Moog: The Unit Shortly after Bob Moog's death, it was proposed in his honor that the word Moog become the standard unit for expressing volts per octave. This term is used in reference to the exponentially-scaled voltage controlled oscillators found in analog synthesizers. The symbol is "Mg". A voltage-controlled oscillator or VCO is an electronic circuit that uses amplification, feedback and a resonant circuit to generate a repeating voltage waveform. ...
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One Moog (1 Mg) means "one volt per octave" (1V/oct), which is the most common standard. Other scaling factors have been used, such as the 1.2 Moog scale of Buchla synthesizers and the Minimoog Voyager's 0.98 Mg scaling. The Buchla Modular Synthesizer Created by engineer Don Buchla with the help of Ramon Sender and composer Morton Subotnick, it was the first portable sound synthesizing device. ...
Some are hoping that Moog will become an ANSI standard unit. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit standards organization that produces industrial standards in the United States. ...
See also Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ...
This is a list of musicians who use Moog synthesizers. ...
Raymond Scott (September 10, 1908 - February 8, 1994), was a composer, bandleader, and inventor. ...
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