RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the
musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.
Moog died Sunday at his home in Asheville, according to his company's
Web site. He had suffered from an inoperable brain tumor, 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 as tightly to synthesizers as the name Les
Paul is to electric guitars.
.. . . . .
Hey, when your momma tells you that all that weird-sounding
music and cell-phone radiation will rot your brain ... maybe
you'd better believe her :-)
Re: RIP: Robert Moog ... electric currents into sound, revolutionizing music in the 1960s and opening the wave that became electronica, has died. ...Moog died Sunday at his home in Asheville, according to his company's Web site. ... rhymes with vogue - in 1964 developed his first voltage-controlled synthesizer modules with composer Herb Deutsch. ... The instrument allowed musicians, first in a studio and later on stage, ... (alt.guitar.amps)
The PiNG presents The Riderless + Michael Keith with David Sait ... The wonderful electronic music inventor Dr. Robert Moog passed away ... There's some shots of my own small Moog system at a PiNG event here: ... Summer may be winding down but things are heating up at THE AMBiENT PiNG:... BLEEP first wowed the audience with their blend of rock electronica... (rec.music.ambient)
The PiNG presents The Riderless + Michael Keith with David Sait ... The wonderful electronic music inventor Dr. Robert Moog passed away ... There's some shots of my own small Moog system at a PiNG event here: ... Summer may be winding down but things are heating up at THE AMBiENT PiNG:... BLEEP first wowed the audience with their blend of rock electronica... (rec.music.newage)
ROBERT MOOG DIES ... turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that ... became electronica, has died. ...Moog was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, ... that tied the name Moog as tightly to synthesizers as the name Les Paul ... (rec.music.beatles)
Re: Developer of Moog Synthesizer Dies ... One slight correction regarding the Theremin: though vaccum tubes *were* involved in the original design, the instrument was not actually "played by ... Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. ... By the end of that year, R.A. Moog Co. marketed the first commercial modular synthesizer.... (rec.music.dementia)
