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Moog Music Inc. (/ m oʊ ɡ / mohg [1]) is an American synthesizer company based in Asheville, North Carolina.It was founded in 1953 as R. A. Moog Co. by Robert Moog and his father and was renamed Moog Music in 1972.
Moog developed the synthesizer in response to demand for more practical and affordable electronic music equipment, guided by suggestions and requests from composers including Herb Deutsch, Richard Teitelbaum, Vladimir Ussachevsky and Wendy Carlos. Moog's principal innovation was voltage control, which uses voltage to control pitch. He also ...
Marek Biliński – Polish electronic music composer. On his debut album, Garden Of The King Of Dawn, he solely used Minimoog, Polymoog and Micromoog. Blackmail; Tim Blake – Crystal Machine-Gong & Hawkwind – Moog modular 55, minimoog; Paul Bley – First live performance of a Moog, at Lincoln Center in 1969; Blondie; David Borden – Mother ...
Robert Arthur Moog (/ m oʊ ɡ / MOHG; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, which debuted in 1964.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 January 2025. American composer and electronic musician (born 1939) Wendy Carlos Born (1939-11-14) November 14, 1939 (age 85) Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S. Genres Electronic classical ambient jazz Occupations Musician composer record producer Instruments Keyboards synthesizer vocoder Years active 1964 ...
Gershon Kingsley (born Götz Gustav Ksinski; October 28, 1922 – December 10, 2019) was a German-American composer, [1] a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, founder of the First Moog Quartet, and writer of rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious ceremonies. [2]
A number of other Moog synthesizer albums were released, such as Switched-On Rock by the Moog Machine, Music to Moog By by Gershon Kingsley, [17] [18] [19] and The Moog Strikes Bach by Hans Wurman. [20] Moog credited the album for demonstrating that synthesizers could be used for more than avant-garde music and sound effects. [21]
The Grandmother is an analog semi-modular subtractive, 32-key synthesizer [4] released by Moog Music Inc., incorporating circuits based on the Moog modular synthesizer Model 15 and the Minimoog. Moog’s Grandmother is a two-oscillator analog mono-synth. It has a semi-modular architecture.