The Moog Guitar

[mojobone]

Nov 17, 2008, 6:29pm, erandall wrote:Oh boy... I feel like I'm a million years old! Do any of you remember the original MOOG synthesizer? My father, a composer, had a mentor named Milton Babbitt (sp?) at Columbia University, NYC who was way into the MOOG thing... I grew up thinking a MOOG synthesizer was kind of like an organ...So now there's a guitar version? I guess that makes sense. The whole early electronic music scene was based more on mathematics and less on playing music. (i.e. there was no instant sound. just lots of computer cards and output paper.) I don't know if anyone remembers that. Guess I am a dinosaur! Everything old is new again. Actually, this is more of a new new thing, though it does incorporate a Bob Moog style filter for continuity's sake. Milton Babbitt and Columbia University have had a profound effect on electronic music; Keyboard magazine and Electronic Musician have both done some wonderful articles on the history of electronic music, don't know if they're archived somewhere on the net...The groundbreaking thing about Moog's synthesizer was its playability, maybe the first wholly electronic sound generating device to be embraced by actual musicians rather than a subset of think-tank brainiacs. I think I need to sign off now, and go listen to "Good Vibrations", heehee...

[erandall]

Thanks for the explanation...I didn't know that. BTW I love the Beach Boys!