On Thursday, May 8, virtuoso synthesist Erik Norlander and his band The Galactic Collective performed a benefit tribute concert for the Bob Moog Foundation with three very special guests: fully restored vintage instruments from the Bob Moog…
Dick Hyman (b. 1927) was already on his way to becoming a musical legend by 1968 and it had nothing to do with the Moog Modular Synthesizer. Having established himself as a jazz and studio keyboardist, arranger, and composer, he found himself…
Custom Moog Modular, Aries 300 and two ARP 2600s and more find a place in the Bob Moog Foundation Archives The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) recently dusted off the modular synthesizers and other vintage instruments and…
The First Moog Synthesizer Recordings At first, Bob Moog didnt think of his synthesizer as a total solution for the musician. He once famously said, There was never a notion that a synthesizer would be used by itself for anything. He pictured…
Guest blogger Thom Holmes explores how technology and musical artistry influence one another Some questions about electronic music are best answered historically. What qualities make electronic music inherently different than other music? Where…