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Article: The father of electronic music Robert Moog: reflections on his life, work, and contributions to the art of music making worldwide.(TRIBUTE)
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- Music Trades
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- October 1, 2005
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Robert Moog, the man who invented the keyboard synthesizer and ushered in the era of electronic music, died on August 21 at his home in Asheville, North Carolina, of an inoperable brain tumor, detected in April. He was 71 years old. During a 50-year career designing and building instruments, Moog did more than any single individual to move electronic music into the mainstream. From the iPod to the ubiquitous cell phone jingles, not to mention the scores of digital tone generation devices, all owe a debt to Moog's pioneering work using electronic means to create electronic tone.
Moog's interests and formal training made him uniquely equipped as an electronic music ...