Electronic Music Review

Avant garde arts site Ubuweb has shared PDF copies of issues of the Electronic Music Review, which was published by the Independent Electronic Music Center from Jan 1967-Jul 1968 and edited by Reynold Weidenaar & Robert Moog. The Electronic Music Review offers a look at the state of electroacoustic music in the late sixties. It features… Read More Electronic Music Review

The Bob Moog Foundation Expands Its Archive

The Bob Moog Foundation announced today, at the 2014 NAMM Show, significant additions to the Asheville-based foundation’s archives, Michelle Moog-Koussa, executive director of the Bob Moog Foundation (BMF) and Bob Moog’s daughter, announced the additions, including: over 1,000 schematic drawings from 1965 to 1985; several rare prototypes, including: a Moog Apollo synthesizer (the Apollo became the prototype… Read More The Bob Moog Foundation Expands Its Archive

Dr. Grams-Moog Explains Why Bob Moog’s Archive Is Going To Cornell University

We recently reported that the Bob Moog Foundation had suffered a setback, with the announcement that Cornell University, rather than the Foundation, would be getting Moog’s personal notes, plans, drawings and recordings. Moog’s widow, Dr. Ileana Grams-Moog, right, recently announced plans to donate his personal items to the Cornell University Library in Ithaca, N.Y.. Moog’s collection… Read More Dr. Grams-Moog Explains Why Bob Moog’s Archive Is Going To Cornell University

The ‘Heart of Subtractive Synthesis’: The Moog Ladder Filter, Explained

Moog Music has a new video out today on The Moog Ladder Filter, the patent for which Bob Moog is being inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame. Rick Shaich, Moog Hardware Engineer, narrates the video and explains the Ladder Filter’s important distinction of being “voltage controllable… It’s really the heart of subtractive synthesis,… Read More The ‘Heart of Subtractive Synthesis’: The Moog Ladder Filter, Explained