Moog: A History in Recordings – by Thom Holmes On the Road: Early Live Moog Modular Artists, part 2 The earliest and boldest use of the Moog in improvisational music was the work of Richard Teitelbaum (b. 1939), an American composer and…
Moog: A History in Recordings – by Thom Holmes On the Road: Early Live Moog Modular Artists 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 1971an…
Moog: A History in Recordings Thom Holmes A Little 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…
Moog: A History in Recordings Thom Holmes August 2015 The Moog Influence I want to veer from the subject of recordings for this edition of the blog to honor Bob Moog and the industry that he started. In a way, this blog is still about the…
Moog Rarities: A Survey of the Most Hard-to-Find Moog Recordings In past blogs Ive written about the first recordings of the Moog Modular Synthesizer (http://tinyurl.com/mr9h6be) and Moog Obscura (http://tinyurl.com/nfphav5), odds and ends from…
The Moog Minimoog just turned 44 years old, having been introduced to the world on August 20, 1970. For that occasion it was demonstrated by none other than Dick Hyman, at a Jazz in the Garden performance at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art. A…