Anyone who has ever run their fingers over the keys of a synthesizer, or danced to pounding electronic music in a nightclub, owes a debt to Robert Moog. Moog, one of the early pioneers in electronic ...

Because the Moog’s output was often run directly into the recording devices, McKechnie’s Moog improvisations were captured in high quality audio, largely free from external sonic clutter. And even ...

Which Moog synthesizer is best? Bob Moog produced the first-ever commercially available modular synthesizer in 1964, and it has since become an important contributor to modern music. Variations on ...

SWITCHED ON: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution. By Albert Glinsky. Oxford University Press. 496 pages. $39.95. Perhaps the best way to appreciate the tremendous effect of Bob Moog’s 1964 ...

Synthesizers are so ubiquitous in popular music that it’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t around. The first commercial synthesizer did not exist until 1964, when Robert Moog (pronounced MOHG) ...