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English Language : Music Technology : News : Summer 2005 Friday 26 August 2005 : Death of Robert Moog |
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Honours Robert Moog died of brain cancer on 21st of August 2005 at the age of 71. His name is strongly related with early synthesizers and, more especially, with analog ones. His total work can be described as both inquiring and much inspired at the same time.  Moog was born in 1934 in New York City. He studied Physics and Engineering Physics as well as Electrical Engineering. He started creating early synthesizers - theremins and the like - in his very adolescence and later established Moog Company in 1954. The well-known MiniMoog was created in 1970 after having created lots of successful Moog Modular analog models. The company was later sold and, in 1978, he founded Big Briar, to be named Moog Music in 2002. This company is manufacturing high-quality analog synthesizers and devices. Robert Moog has been an analog-synthesizer pioneer, starting with selling theremin kits and then producing instruments of his own design. He applied a lot of fresh ideas and experimental schemes always cooperating with top musicians to reach the perfect result possible. First analog synthesizers were more than expensive - and that made it difficult for his company to survive long - but other companies later managed to follow his steps by creating more affordable analog synthesizers based on his standards. His later company, Big Briar, was specialising in transistorised versions of the Theremin. (**) (***) (**) Sources used : http://www.harmony-central.com - http://www.keyboardmuseum.com . (***) Additional Resources available :  http://news.harmony-central.com/News/2005/Bob-Moog-Dies.html (talking about his death, including biography, his work etc. ) http://www.moogmusic.com (various articles on his death) http://www.caringbridge.com/cb/viewMyStory.do?method=executeInit (about his death) http://www.keyboardmuseum.com/pre60/1960/rmoog.html (on his life and work including synth photos) http://hibp.ecse.rpi.edu/~connor/moog.html (his biography up to 1996) http://www.vintagesynth.com/indexfr.html (choose "Moog" on the left side and read about all his synths - great photos included !) http://www.synthmuseum.com/moog/index.html (the story of Robert Moog) |
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