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The Moog synthesizer ( / ˈmoʊɡ / 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. It was the first commercial synthesizer [contradictory] and established the analog synthesizer concept.
Robert Arthur Moog ( / moʊɡ / MOHG; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, which debuted in 1964. In 1970, Moog released a more portable model, the Minimoog ...
A year later, in 1964, Moog demonstrated his modular synthesizer at the Audio Engineering Society convention, and began taking orders. Within a few years, Moog’s R.A. Moog, Inc. (the predecessor of Moog Music, Inc.) produced the Moog Modular Synthesizer models I, II, and III. And it was during the mid-1960s that pop culture began catching ...
Introduction. Robert (Bob) Arthur Moog (1934-2005) invented the first commercial electronic musical instrument—known as the “Moog Synthesizer”—over a three-year period of development from 1964 to 1967. Bob was an enterprising PhD student in Engineering Physics at Cornell University when he moved to Trumansburg, New York, a village ...
Aug 23, 2005 · Robert Moog, the creator of the electronic music synthesizer that bears his name and that became ubiquitous among experimental composers as well as rock musicians in the 1960's and 70's, died on ...
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Robert Moog, Age 14. This striking self-portrait was taken in Robert's bedroom in the spring of 1948, in Flushing, Queens, New York City. It was submitted with his application to Bronx High School of Science, an elite specialty high school where he longed to be admitted for many years. He went by his full name, "Robert", until he was about 20 ...