“Plugging into the Steinway of the future” declared the American magazine Newsweek in 1968 about Switched-On Bach, Wendy Carlos’ first album of J S Bach’s music realised on a synthesizer. The album ...

You may not have any idea who Wendy Carlos is or what her groundbreaking debut album sounds like. You might not be familiar with the very strange musical instrument she helped introduce to the world ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound, revolutionizing music in the 1960s and opening the wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.

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 ...