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Moog Music Inc. (/ m oʊ ɡ / mohg) is an American synthesizer company based in Asheville, North Carolina. It was founded in 1953 as R. A. Moog Co. by Robert Moog and his father and was renamed Moog Music in 1972.
- 1953; 70 years ago, New York City, U.S.
- Robert Moog, founder, Mike Adams, president
On October 12, 1964, Bob Moog unveiled the first modular voltage-controlled synthesizer, an instrument that forever changed the course of modern music. It began quietly, in 1964, when Bob Moog designed a new electronic instrument to composer Herb Deutsch's request.
May 8, 2020 · In the early 1960s, an engineer named Bob Moog started tinkering with keyboards. He’d been working with theremins for quite a while and had observed the impression the relatively new electric...
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Evolution of Moog Synthesizers 1964-2002. A timeline tracing the evolution of Moog synthesizers from the Moog modular prototype to the Voyager. As one explores the lineage of the synthesizers...
Curiosity about the Moog synthesizer grew quickly as the instrument began to appear on commercially available recordings of popular music in 1967. In my project to archive every early recording of the Moog modular synthesizer, I am often asked to name the very first recordings.
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Born May 23, 1934, in New York City, Moog found his entry into electronic music not behind the keyboard of some proto-synth, but rather building and selling Theremins, the proximity-controlled instruments you play via hand gestures—prevalent in the sound tracks of many 1950s sci-fi movies.
The Moog synthesizer (/ ˈ m oʊ ɡ / MOHG) is a modular synthesizer invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964. Moog's company, R. A. Moog Co. (later known as Moog Music), produced numerous models from 1965 to 1981, and again from 2014.
