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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He visited the school two years ago at the behest of music teacher Virgil Franklin, a theremin and synthesizer aficionado, who thought his students should meet the man who created the Moog synthesizer ...

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 ...