It was bound to happen, the 1960s transformation of electronic sound-generating laboratory tools into music. But don’t look inside a Moog synthesizer to make sense of all those oscillators, ASDR envelopes, low-pass filters and patch-cords.
Listen to the sound; think of the pink and purple zodiac albums, space movies, the evolution of electric rock from Emerson Lake and Palmer to Radiohead and see how synthesized sound has become so ingrained in the music of the past 30 years. It started with tinkering hands of a kid from New York.
Robert Moog had no idea of the changes he was about to unleash when set up a card table at his first audio show. Now his genius and insight continue to inspire tinkering hands of cutting edge nouveau-music nerds.
Guests:
Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog Electronic Synthesizer
Keith Emerson, musician and Moog player
Trevor Pinch, co-author “Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer.”