Moogfest

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Moog Music has announced that MoogFest – the annual event honoring the remarkable vision of Robert Moog and his amazing musical inventions  – is moving from New York City to Asheville, NC.

Above, Bob Moog introduces Keith Emerson at MoogFest 2004, and Emerson proceeds to bust out the Moog modular prog chops.

MoogFest 2009 will be held in Asheville the weekend of September 11 – 13, 2009.

MoogFest will celebrate Bob Moog’s legacy as a sonic pioneer, which will be the thread that unites the festival’s rich array of musical offerings. Moogfest 2009 will also incorporate elements of the EtherMusic Festival – showcasing the theremin, the world’s first electronic music instrument. The electronic music festival will host artists and audiences from throughout the world in different venues throughout Asheville’s historic downtown.

Moog made Asheville his home for the last 30 years of his life.

NAIL at Moogfest 2007, BB Kings in NYC.

Features 2 Songs: “At the Water’s Edge” and “Lost Your Number” with synth pioneer, composer and educator Herb Deutsch.

Moog Music has announced the dates for Moogfest 2008 – October 13, 2008.

Description:

Bob Moog’s namesake analog synthesizers helped catapult the careers of such diverse artists as rockers Edgar Winter, Todd Rundgren, Gary Numan and Devo, funksters Parliament-Funkadelic and Zapp, disco producer Giorgio Moroder with disco diva Donna Summer, fusioneers Chick Corea with Return To Forever, Herbie Hancock with The Headhunters, Jan Hammer with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Klaus Doldinger with Passport and Joe Zawinul with Weather Report, New Age icon Tomita and classical performer Wendy Carlos.

To honor Bob and commemorate his groundbreaking achievements, a stellar line-up of top Moog users will gather for an evening of ground-shaking music.

This year’s Moogfest will feature a new development… The Moog Guitar!

Performers Include:

• Umphrey’s McGee
• Eric McFadden Trio
• Bernie Worrell (P-Funk)
• Aron Magner (Disco Biscuits)
• Jamie Shields (The New Deal)
• Joe Russo (Benevuto/Russo) and more! …

When:
Monday, October 13, 2008

Where:
Hammerstein Grand Ballroom
311 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001

How:
Tickets available through Ticketmaster

More:
For more information, visit www.moogfest.net

Play At Moogfest:

This is your opportunity to play at Moogfest 2008 along side the world’s leading players.

To enter your submission, visit www.sonicbids.com/Moogfest.

Moogfest, in conjunction with The Bob Moog Foundation, has announced the first annual Moogfest Symposium.

On the evening of September 20th, 2007, luminaries in the field of electronic music will gather at the Music Department of Columbia University to discuss how the life and work of synthesizer maverick Dr. Robert Moog has affected their own work.

Members of the Moogfest panel will include:

• Herbert Deutsch – collaborator on the development of the first Moog synthesizer; composer, musician, and twice Chair of the Music Department at Hofstra University.
• Gershon Kingsley – musician and composer who led the first Moog Quartet, which performed around the country and at Carnegie Hall. Best known for his catchy melody “Popcorn”, which is part of his “Music to Moog By” album, Mr. Kinglsey has recorded many Moog Albums, including his most recent addition “God is a Moog”.
• Joel Chadabe – composer, performer and pioneer in the development of interactive music systems. Mr. Chadabe has had a lifelong career in academia and has lectured and recorded extensively. He is the President of the Electronic Music Foundation.
• John Eaton – Avant garde opera comoposer and McArthur Fellow who, over a 20 year collaboration with Dr. Moog, created the Eaton-Moog Multi-Touch Sensitive Keyboard. He currently serves as the composer andartistic director of the Pocket Opera Players.
• David Borden – Played and tested early Moog Modulars in Dr. Moog’s studio in Trumansburg, NY. Founder of Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece, the first Moog synthesizer ensemble. Retired Director of the Digital Music Program at Cornell Univerity.
• Trevor Pinch – Author of “Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Syntheziser” and professor and Chairperson of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.

Here are the details:

Columbia University
Center Room
3rd Floor, Prentis Hall
632 West 125th Street
New York, NY 10027
Directions

via AllAboutJazz