Bob Moog’s Love of the Theremin

Bob Moog’s Love of the Theremin

Bob Moog’s Love of the Theremin

  A note: You can turn to Thom Holmes’ podcast to hear all the tracks included here that use a Moog theremin as well as some others from the last 100 years of theremin recordings. As influential as the Moog synthesizer has been, Bob Moog’s original focus in...

Early “Live” Moog Modular Artists: John Mills-Cockell

This is the first of a series of blogs on early live uses of the Moog Modular. Before Keith Emerson took his mammoth “Monster Moog” on tour in 1971—an astonishing feat by any measure—there were several forays into live performances by a number of Moog users. Their experience spanned music genres, from classical, experimental, art rock, and jazz. All before the year 1970.

A History of the Moog Modular in Space Music

While most musicians were finding ways to adapt the Moog Modular to popular music–using the keyboard controller to play the instrument like an organ– others found satisfaction in creating “beds” and continuously changing background textures of sounds.