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Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (pronounced /ˈmoʊɡ/ to rhyme with "vogue") (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. Events 1430 - Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method form device or other useful means The term Moog (ˈmoʊg as in 'vogue' Synthesizer can refer to any number of Analog synthesizers designed by Dr

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Life

A native of New York City, Robert Moog attended the Bronx High School of Science, graduating in 1952. The City of New York The Bronx High School of Science (commonly called Bronx Science, Bronx Sci, or just Science, and officially known as H Moog earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Queens College, New York in 1957, another in electrical engineering from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell University. A bachelor's degree is usually an Undergraduate Academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three four or in some cases and Queens College, located in Flushing, Queens, New York City, is one of the senior Colleges of the City University of New York. Electrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of Engineering that deals with the study and application of Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Engineering physics (EP is an Academic degree, available mainly at the levels of B Moog's awards include honorary doctorates from Polytechnic University (New York City) and Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania)

Moog received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1970. The City of New York Founded in 1812 Lycoming College is located in Williamsport Pennsylvania. Williamsport is a city in and the County seat of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania in the United States The Grammy Trustees Award is awarded by the Recording Academy to "individuals who during their careers in music have made significant contributions other than Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 2002, Moog was honored with a Grammy Tech Award, and an honorary doctorate degree from Berklee College of Music. Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945 is an independent music College in Boston Massachusetts.

During his lifetime, Moog founded two companies for manufacturing electronic musical instruments. Moog also worked as a consultant and vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984 to 1988, helping to develop the Kurzweil K2000. Kurzweil Music Systems is a company that produces Electronic musical instruments for professionals and home users The Kurzweil K2000 is a programmable synthesizer by Kurzweil Music Systems, similar to (but more advanced than the Fairlight CMI, Synclavier and the He spent the early 1990s as a research professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. The University of North Carolina Asheville is a co-educational four year public Liberal arts university

He gave an enthusiastically-received lecture at the 2004 New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-04), held in Hamamatsu, Japan's "City of Musical Instruments", in June, 2004. New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known as NIME is dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies for musical is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and is the largest city in the prefecture "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Moog was the inspiration behind the 2004 film Moog. Moog is a 2004 film by Hans Fjellestad about electronic instrument pioneer Dr

Moog's first wife was Shirleigh Moog (née Shirley May Leigh) a grammar school teacher whom he married in 1958. The couple had 3 daughters (Laura Moog Lanier, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Renee Moog) and one son (Matthew Moog) before their divorce. Moog was married to his second wife Ileana Grams, a philosophy professor, for nine years until his death. Moog's stepdaughter, Miranda Richmond, is Grams' daughter from a previous marriage. Moog also had five grandchildren.

Robert Moog was diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor on April 28, 2005. Glioblastoma multiforme ( GBM) is the most common and most aggressive type of primary Brain Tumor, accounting for 52% of all primary brain tumor Events 1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Nearly four months later, Moog died at the age of 71 in Asheville, North Carolina on August 21, 2005. Asheville is a City in and the County seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Bob Moog Foundation was created as a memorial, with the aim of continuing his life's work of developing electronic music. The Bob Moog Memorial Foundation was founded after the death of Bob Moog in 2005.

R. A. Moog Co. and Moog Music

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In 1953 at age 19, Robert Moog founded his first company, R. Moog Music Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A. Moog Co. , to manufacture theremin kits. During the 1960s, the company was employed to build modular synthesizers based on Moog's designs. Moog modular synthesizer refers to any of a number of monophonic analog Modular synthesizers designed by the late electronic instrument pioneer Dr

In 1972 Moog changed the company's name to Moog Music. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Moog Music Throughout the 1970s, Moog Music went through various changes of ownership, eventually being bought out by musical instrument manufacturer Norlin. Poor management and marketing led to Moog's departure from his own company in 1977.

In 1978 after leaving his namesake firm, Moog started making electronic musical instruments again with a new company, Big Briar. Moog Music Their first specialty was theremins, but by 1999 the company expanded to produce a line of analog effects pedals called moogerfoogers. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) An effects pedal (or a " Stomp Box " is an electronic Effects unit housed in a small metal or plastic chassis used by musicians usually Electric moogerfooger is the Trademark for a series of analog Effects pedals manufactured by Moog Music. In 1999, Moog partnered with Bomb Factory to co-develop the first digital effects based on Moog technology in the form of plugins for Pro Tools software. Bomb Factory is a Recording studio and manufacturer of music Plugins based in Los Angeles, California. Pro Tools is a Digital Audio Workstation platform for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating systems developed and manufactured by Digidesign

Despite Moog Music's closing in 1993, Robert Moog did not have the rights to market products using his own name throughout the 1990s. Big Briar acquired the rights to use the Moog Music name in 2002 after a legal battle with Don Martin who had previously bought the rights to the name Moog Music. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. At the same time, Moog designed a new version of the Minimoog called the Minimoog Voyager. The Minimoog Voyager or Voyager is a monophonic Analog synthesizer, designed by Robert Moog and released in 2002 by Moog The Voyager includes nearly all of the features of the original Model D in addition to numerous modern features.

Theremin

Robert Moog constructed his own theremin as early as 1949. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Later he described a theremin in the hobbyist magazine Electronics World and offered a kit of parts for the construction of the Electronic World's Theremin, which became very successful. In the late 1980s Moog repaired the original theremin of Clara Rockmore, an accomplishment which he considered a high point of his professional career. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Clara Rockmore (born Clara Reisenberg Vilnius, Lithuania, March 9, 1911; d He also produced, in collaboration with first wife Shirleigh Moog, Mrs. Rockmore's album, The Art of the Theremin. The Art of the Theremin is the first official album by Clara Rockmore, released in 1977 by Delos International Dr. Moog was a principal interview subject in the award-winning documentary film, THEREMIN- An Electronic Odyssey, the success of which led to a revival of interest in the theremin. Moog Music went back to its roots and once again began manufacturing theremins. Thousands have been sold to date and are used by both professional and amateur musicians around the globe. In 1996 he published another do-it-yourself theremin guide. Today, Moog Music is the leading manufacturer of performance-quality theremins.

Pronunciation

The surname Moog is one of the most divergently pronounced names in popular culture. The following interview excerpt reveals Robert Moog's preferred pronunciation:

— Reviewer: First off: Does your name rhyme with "vogue" or is like a cow’s "moo" plus a "G" at the end?
— Dr. Robert Moog: It rhymes with vogue. That is the usual German pronunciation. My father's grandfather came from Marburg, Germany. Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. I like the way that pronunciation sounds better than the way the cow's "moo-g" sounds. [1]

(Note that the English [moʊg] sound proscribed here is a loose approximation of the German pronunciation of the surname Moog [moːk], which has a monophthong and devoiced final consonant. A monophthong ( Greek μονόφθογγος "monophthongos" = single note) is a "pure" Vowel sound one whose articulation at Final obstruent devoicing or terminal devoicing is a systematic phonological process occurring in languages such as German, Dutch, Polish )

In a deleted scene from the DVD version of the documentary Moog, Moog describes the three pronunciations of the name Moog: the original, Dutch pronunciation [moːx], which he believes would be too demanding of English speakers, the preferred "German" pronunciation [moʊg], and the more common pronunciation in English-speaking countries [muːg]. Moog reveals that some of his family members prefer the English pronunciation, while others, including himself (and his wife) prefer the Anglo-German pronunciation.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ The Orgins of the Synthesizer: An Interview with Dr. Robert Moog

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