Home | Community | Message Board

Sporeworks
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

PhytoExtractum Shop: Maeng Da Thai Kratom Leaf Powder

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
InvisibleVvellum
Stranger

Registered: 05/24/04
Posts: 10,920
RIP Dr Moog
    #4569273 - 08/23/05 12:41 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4173510.stm

Quote:


Synthesiser pioneer Dr Moog dies
Dr Robert Moog
Dr Moog made his first instrument aged 14 (Moogarchives.com)
Synthesiser pioneer Dr Robert Moog has died at his North Carolina home aged 71, four months after being diagnosed with brain cancer.

Born in the New York district of Queens, his instruments were used by The Beatles and The Doors among others.

Dr Moog built his first electronic instrument - a theremin - aged 14 and made the MiniMoog, "the first compact, easy-to-use synthesiser", in 1970.

He won the Polar prize, Sweden's "music Nobel prize", in 2001.

Synthesiser hit

It was Wendy Carlos' 1968 Grammy award-winning album, Switched-On Bach, which brought Dr Moog to prominence.

Carlos played renditions of Johann Sebastian Bach compositions on a Moog analogue synthesiser, making electronic music popular and Dr Moog a household name.

Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim is among recent musicians to use Moog synthesisers
Before long many musicians and groups, including the Doors, the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, were using Moog synthesisers.

Dr Moog remained a respected musical figure and in recent years many musicians, including Brian Eno, Frank Zappa, The Cure, Fatboy Slim and Stereolab kept the sound alive, even as analogue synthesisers were superseded by digital instruments.

"The sound defined progressive music as we know it," said Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

In 2004, the first Moogfest was organised in New York, celebrating Dr Moog's achievements.

Organiser Charles Carlini said: "He brought electronic music to the masses and changed the way we hear music."

Dr Moog had received both radiation treatment and chemotherapy to help combat his brain disease. He left a wife, Ileana, and five children.

A public memorial celebration is planned for Friday at the Orange Peel Club in Asheville, North Carolina.





Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSKINNYDOGGY
synth junky

Registered: 01/27/02
Posts: 353
Last seen: 15 years, 8 days
Re: RIP Dr Moog [Re: Vvellum]
    #4569385 - 08/23/05 02:37 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

I was just about to post about this truly sad news to any one in to electronic music
but he had a good life that touched a lot of people full great creativeness and memories

R.I.P. Robert Moog



--------------------
Feels Like Heaven Taste Like Shit



Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

PhytoExtractum Shop: Maeng Da Thai Kratom Leaf Powder


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Synthesizer Innovator Robert A. Moog Dies automanM 654 3 08/23/05 12:06 AM
by BrAiN
* Dr. Dre is punched in the face at award show last night!
( 1 2 3 4 5 all )
Super_Blunt 8,218 80 11/23/04 07:42 AM
by Fucknuckle
* Moogs TrippinNinjaBuddha 541 1 02/20/07 04:10 PM
by elbisivni
* Moog and Oog mjshroomer 816 6 06/04/04 03:29 AM
by fung_us_among_us
* The Album Leaf - Micro Melodies (live MooG) Mello KittyS 293 0 04/08/09 10:21 AM
by Mello Kitty
* My new psy trance track guest staring Dr. Albert Hoffmann Amatoxin 943 7 04/25/06 08:11 PM
by pH_
* RIP Hunter S. Thompson
( 1 2 all )
Redstorm 2,832 20 03/05/05 04:39 PM
by salviadog
* RIP Kurt Vonnegut waterbug 1,581 14 04/20/07 04:19 PM
by EmbracingShadows

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Middleman, automan, DividedQuantum
636 topic views. 0 members, 2 guests and 1 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.022 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 14 queries.