Bob Moog, Lydia Kavina and William Olsen

http://www.cyndustries.com/bobmoog.htm

In via AH and Synth Sights. Lydia Kavina is Leon Theremin's neice.

Create Digital Music on Remembering Moog

Make sure to check out Create Digital Music for their coverage on Bob Moog. The have a link up to an audioMIDI interview of Bob Moog and the Voyager and much more. In the video he calls out that the Minimoog Voyager is exactly the same as a Minimoog Model D plus enhancements. You always hear about this, but there is a certain validity added to it when actually hearing it from the man himself.

Reboot Stereophonic

Update: From Steve-O in the comments section:
"i just got a copy of this -- double album -- if you like early kraftwerk, you will like this big time"

Update: Direct link to Reboot Stereophonic for release dates and more. This one is supposed to come out November 2005. Interesting thing is they call it Gershon Kingsley's Jewish Moog instead. Wonder if this is a different album.

Via Boing Boing. Meant to post this earlier today but got caught up in everything else. Reboot Stereophic is "a new non-profit record label reissuing (stay with me here) classic space age bachelor pad Jewish music." Brilliant. : )

NPR - Music Visionary Robert Moog

Another NPR piece on Bob Moog's passing. Title link takes you to NPR's All Things Considered with Music Visionary Robert Moog by Elizabeth Blair. This is different than the earlier NPR post.

New York Times on Bob Moog

Click here for a New York Times article on Bob Moog's passing. It's good and different than the generic AP News article making it's rounds. If you get the sign up screen, do it (it's easier than it looks), free and simple (cookie based).

"It was the theremin, in fact, that got Mr. Moog interested in electronic music as a child in the 1940's. In 1949, when he was 14, he built a theremin from plans he found in a magazine, Electronics World. He tinkered with the instrument until he produced a design of his own in 1953, and in 1954 he published an article on the theremin in "Radio and Television News" and started the R. A. Moog Company, which sold his own theremins and theremin kits. "

Carolina Eyck

Who says you can't mix an electronic instrument with the orchestra. Click here for Carolina Eyck's homepage. Click here for an amazing performance on the theremin by Caronia with orchestra.

Great shot below when she was just a kid with Bob Moog.

Aliens

Groovy Moog madness. Now that's what I'm talking about. Click here for an AVI. Check Aliens Project for more.

Moog Mania

I thought what would be more appropriate at this time than to celebrate what Bob Moog left us, by sharing some performances with his creations. Watch this guy go all out. Amazing. Second video here.

Where's the Mini?

Interesting note on the AP article on Bob Moog's passing. No mention of the minimoog. But the mititmoog gets a mention! : )

"He went on to attach his name to a long list of synthesizers developed over the years -- among them Micromoog, Minitmoog, Multimoog and Memorymoog."

Image from Vintage Synth Explorer

Bob Dancing

In via AH. Some shots taken at a NAMM loft party. That's Bob in the purple striped shirt.

NPR on Bob Moog

Title link take you to NPR announcing audio that will be available at 3:00PM Eastern. This in from Synth Sights:

"Just now heard a note on his passing on NPR's Performance Today,
accompanied by a piece from Wendy Carlos' Switched on Bach.

He will be missed.

Phil"

Associated Press on Bob Moog's passing

Good article on Bob. Some quotes:

"He's like an Einstein of music," Carlini said. "He sees it like, there's a thought, an idea in the air, and it passes through him. Passing through him, he's able to build these instruments."

"A lot of people today don't realize what this man brought to the masses," Carlini said. "He brought electronic music to the masses and changed the way we hear music."

"A deliberate man with brushed-back white hair and a breast pocket packed with pens, Moog drove an aging Toyota painted with a snail, vines and a fish blowing bubbles.

"When I drive that thing around, people smile at me," he said. "I really feel I'm enhancing the environment.""

Wikipedia on Bob Moog

Wikipedia has already been updated. Wikipedia on Synthesizers has the following on the history of the synthesizer. This is who we lost today:

"The first playable modern configurable music synthesizer was created by Robert Moog, who had been a student of Peter Mauzey, one of the engineers of the RCA Mark II. Moog designed the circuits used in his synthesizer while he was at Columbia-Princeton. The Moog synthesizer was first displayed at the Audio Engineering Society convention in 1964. Like the RCA Mark II, it required hours to set up the machine for a new sound, but it was smaller and more flexible. The Moog synthesizer was at first a curiosity, but by 1968 it had caused a sensation."