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Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (pronounced /moʊg/ to rhyme with "vogue", not /muːg/) (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was a pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds. ...
May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ...
1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ...
An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ...
Bob Moog Dr Robert A. Moog (born May 23, 1934) is the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. ...
Life
A native of New York City, Robert Moog attended the Bronx High School of Science, graduating in 1952. Moog 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. Flag Seal Nickname: Big Apple Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area City 1,214. ...
The Bronx High School of Science, commonly called Bronx Science, is a public high school in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, New York City. ...
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Queens College is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. ...
Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ...
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Moog received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1970. In 2002, Moog was honored with a Grammy Tech Award, and an honorary doctorate degree from Berklee College of Music. 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. ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. ...
During his lifetime, Moog founded two companies for manufacturing electronic musical instruments. Moog also worked as a consultant and vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984 to 1988. He spent the early 1990s as a research professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Kurzweil Music Systems is a company that produces electronic musical instruments for professionals and home users. ...
The University of North Carolina Asheville (known for short as UNC Asheville) is a public liberal arts university in Asheville, North Carolina. ...
He gave an enthusiastically-received lecture at the 2004 New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-04), held in Hamamatsu, Japan's "City of Musical Instruments", in June, 2004. Moog was the inspiration behind the 2004 film Moog. Musician with a multimodal instrument based on electromyography, position sensing, and acoustically resonant bowls. ...
Hamamatsu (浜æ¾å¸‚; -shi) is a city located in western Shizuoka, Japan. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Moog is a 2004 film by Hans Fjellestad about electronic instrument pioneer Dr. Robert Moog. ...
Moog's first wife was Shirleigh Moog (née Shirley May Leigh) a grammar school teacher whom he married in 1958. The couple had 3 daughters (Laura Moog Lanier, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Renee Moog) and one son (Matthew Moog) before their divorce. Moog's stepdaughter, Miranda Richmond, was Shirleigh's daughter from a previous marriage. Moog was married to his second wife Ileana Grams, a philosophy professor, for nine years until his death. Moog had five grandchildren.
Robert Moog was diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor on April 28, 2005. Nearly four months later, Moog died at the age of 71 in Asheville, North Carolina on August 21. The Bob Moog Foundation was created as a memorial, with the aim of continuing his life's work of developing electronic music. Glioblastoma multiforme, (GBM) 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 tumor cases. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area Ranked 28th - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²) - Width 500 miles (805 km) - Length 150 miles (240 km) - % water 9. ...
The Bob Moog Foundation was founded after the death of Bob Moog in 2005. ...
Development of the Moog synthesizer - Main article: Moog synthesizer
The Moog synthesizer was one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments. Early developmental work on the components of the synthesizer occurred at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, now the Computer Music Center. While there, Moog developed the voltage controlled oscillators, ADSR envelope generators, and other synthesizer modules with composer Herbert Deutsch. Bob Moog Dr Robert A. Moog (born May 23, 1934) is the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. ...
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The Computer Music Center (CMC) at Columbia University is the oldest center for electronic and computer music research in the United States. ...
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. ...
Moog created the first subtractive synthesizer to utilize a keyboard as a controller and demonstrated it at the AES convention in 1964. In 1966, Moog patented his unique low-pass filter, the only synthesizer module he ever patented. 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. ...
A low-pass filter is a filter that passes low frequencies well, but attenuates (or reduces) frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency. ...
Robert Moog employed his theremin company (R. A. Moog Co., which would later become Moog Music) 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 outrageously crowded Woodstock festival epitomized the popular antiwar movement of the 60s. ...
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The first Moog instruments were modular synthesizers. 1971 Moog Music began production of the Minimoog Model D which was among the first widely available, portable and relatively affordable synthesizers. 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. ...
The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Robert Moog. ...
One of Moog's earliest musical customers was Wendy Carlos whom he credits with providing feedback that was valuable to the further development of Moog synthesizers. Through his involvement in electronic music, Moog developed close professional relationships with artists such as Don Buchla, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, John Cage, Gershon Kingsley, Clara Rockmore, and Pamelia Kurstin. In a 2000 interview, Moog said "I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers. They use my tools." Wendy Carlos publicity photo Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos—see Personal life section below—November 14, 1939 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is an American composer and electronic musician. ...
Don Buchla (1937— ) is a pioneer in the field of music synthesizers, releasing his first units months after Robert Moogs first synthesizers. ...
Throughout his career with The Nice, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and as a solo artist, Keith Emerson has proven himself perhaps the greatest, most technically accomplished keyboardist in rock history. ...
Richard Christopher Wakeman (born May 18, 1949 in Perivale, London, England) is a British progressive rock keyboard player. ...
John Cage For the character of John Cage from the TV show Ally McBeal see: John Cage (Character) John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer, writer and visual artist. ...
Gershon Kingsley, (b. ...
Clara Rockmore (born Clara Reisenberg, Vilnius, Lithuania, March 9, 1911; d. ...
Pamelia Kurstin (born May 28, 1976 in Southern California) is a world-renowned thereminist who has played and recorded with such prestigious artists as David Byrne and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and has performed on the television show Saturday Night Live. ...
R.A. Moog Co. and Moog Music
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In 1953 at age 19, Robert Moog founded his first company, R.A. Moog Co., to manufacture theremin kits. During the 1960s, the company was employed to build modular synthesizers based on Moog's designs. The Moog Logo. ...
The Moog Music logo Moog Music Inc. ...
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ...
Moog modular synthesizer refers to any of a number of monophonic analog modular synthesizers designed by the late electronic instrument pioneer Dr. Robert Moog and manufactured by R.A Moog Co. ...
In 1972 Moog changed the company's name to Moog Music. Throughout the 1970s, Moog Music went through various changes of ownership, eventually being bought out by musical instrument manufacturer Norlin. Poor management and marketing led to Moog's departure from his own company in 1977. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...
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In 1978 after leaving his namesake firm, Moog started making electronic musical instruments again with a new company, Big Briar. Their first specialty was theremins, but by 1999 the company expanded to produce a line of analog effects pedals called moogerfoogers. In 1999, Moog partnered with Bomb Factory to co-develop the first digital effects based on Moog technology in the form of plugins for Pro Tools software. Big Briar Inc. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, 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. ...
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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Despite Moog Music's closing in 1993, Robert Moog did not have the rights to market products using his own name throughout the 1990s. Big Briar acquired the rights to use the Moog Music name in 2002 after a legal battle with Don Martin who had previously bought the rights to the name Moog Music. At the same time, Moog designed a new version of the Minimoog called the Minimoog Voyager. The Voyager includes nearly all of the features of the original Model D in addition to numerous modern features. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
The Minimoog Voyager or Voyager is a monophonic analog synthesizer, designed by Robert Moog and released in 2002 by Moog Music. ...
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 considered 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. 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. ...
1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...
The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...
Clara Rockmore (born Clara Reisenberg, Vilnius, Lithuania, March 9, 1911; d. ...
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]
(Linguists note that the English "ou" sound in "vogue" is at best a loose approximation of the German pronunciation of the surname Moog. The English sound in "vogue" is a diphtong nonexistent in German, while the original German sound is a flat, drawn "o:" monophthong which does not exist in the English language.) Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the Lahn river. ...
In phonetics, a diphthong (in Greek δίφθογγος) is a vowel combination usually involving a quick but smooth movement from one vowel to another, often interpreted by listeners as a single vowel sound or phoneme. ...
A monophthong (in Greek μονόφθογγος = single note) is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation; compare diphthong. ...
In a deleted scene from the DVD version of the documentary Moog, 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 /u/ sound). 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.
See also The Bob Moog Foundation was founded after the death of Bob Moog in 2005. ...
Moog is a 2004 film by Hans Fjellestad about electronic instrument pioneer Dr. Robert Moog. ...
The Moog Music logo Moog Music Inc. ...
Bob Moog Dr Robert A. Moog (born May 23, 1934) is the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. ...
This is a list of musicians who use Moog synthesizers. ...
Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ...
Raymond Scott (September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994), was a composer, bandleader, and inventor. ...
A young Léon Theremin playing a theremin Léon Theremin (born Lev Sergeyevich Termen, Лев Сергеевич Термен in Russian) (August 15, 1896–November 3, 1993) was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments. ...
Bruce Clinton Haack (1931-1988) was a musician and composer, and a pioneer within the realm of electronic music. ...
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Bibliography - Pinch, Trevor and Trocco, Frank (2002). Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. hardcover: ISBN 0674008898, 2004 paperback: ISBN 0674016173
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