In December 2009, Mercyhurst University music professor Albert Glinsky received an unexpected phone call that would alter the course of his life. On the other end of the line was Michelle Moog-Koussa, ...

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 ...

While there had been some ambitious attempts to use the Moog as the centerpiece of recordings — Mort Garson’s 1967 LP The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds was likely the first album to feature the synthesizer ...

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 ...

Robert Moog, who died Sunday at 71, was an electronics tinker who invented and named the Moog synthesizer, the touchstone for a revolution in sound production that has reached every corner of music.

Robert A. Moog, 71, who invented the Moog electronic synthesizer, a keyboard that became central to rock and electronica bands of the 1960s and 1970s, died of a brain tumor Aug. 21 at his home in ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bob Moog's synthesizer helped change the sound of modern music. On what would have been his 78th birthday, Google is paying tribute to the man with a virtual version of his famous ...

When I woke this morning to find a funky-looking 24-key Moog synthesizer staring at me from just above Google’s homepage search box, I knew exactly what I’d be writing about. I’ve played the piano ...

Moog Music announced it's reintroducing the classic Minimoog Model D synthesizer with a pilot production run at Moogfest 2016. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...