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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...
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Thom Holmes | Keith Emerson: An appreciation of his Moog musicianship
This blog entry provides an appreciation of Keith Emerson’s playing and musicianship, especially with the Moog Modular synthesizer, and points out some of the ways in which he was an exceptional synthesist. My thanks to Brian Kehew for contributing his...
Early “Live” Moog Modular Artists: Richard Teitelbaum and the First Moog Modular Synthesizer in Europe
The earliest and boldest use of the Moog in improvisational music was the work of Richard Teitelbaum (b. 1939), an American composer and co-founder of the free improvisation ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV).
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 1971an astonishing feat by any measurethere 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.
Thom Holmes: Reflection on the Moog Influence
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 recordings because without...
Thom Holmes: The Rarest of Moog Modular Recordings
Moog Rarities: A Survey of the Most Hard-to-Find Moog Recordings In past blogs I've written about the first recordings of the Moog Modular Synthesizer: and Moog Obscura, odds and ends from the Moog Modular catalog. This time I'm going to take a crack at listing a...
Moog, a History in Recordings: In Celebration of the Minimoog
This month, I want to highlight several outstanding benchmarks in recorded Minimoog performances, some well-known and others largely overlooked in the annals of popular music history.
Moog, a history in recordings–Unexpected Moog movie soundtrack appearances
Thom Holmes wanted to share a few Moog soundtrack appearances that surprised him, and that we think you would enjoy tracking down: