Robert Moog on The Guardian

Bob Moog on synthesis:

"'I knew it was applicable to pop music but our first market was the experimental composers, and that's not what you'd call the basis for a big business,' Moog says now. 'Nobody believed there was any future in that sort of thing.'

Moog credits Wendy Carlos's 1968 album Switched on Bach with shattering the concept that synthesisers were only suitable for creating sound effects and avant-garde music. Tow years later the flamboyant Keith Emerson used a synthesiser on the first Emerson, Lake & Palmer LP, introducing the instrument to rock."

Pictured: "Synths of the fathers … Robert Moog in 1970. Photograph: Hilton Archive/Getty Images/Jack Robinson" Full post on The Guardian here.