Those of us who have been around long enough to remember the surprising sounds of "Switched-On Bach" will also recall a time when acoustic instruments were the only game in town. Most pop tunes are ...

Opening on what would be his 85th birthday, the Moogseum commemorates the inventor who’s been a staple of pop music from the 1960s to today. Visiting Asheville, North Carolina, in December, I walked ...

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 ...

“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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. ” He may not have been a rock star himself, but Robert A. Moog’s influence can be heard in the music of bands from The Beatles to Yes, Herbie Hancock to Chick Corea. Moog, whose ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 28, 2000. Follow NPR's All Songs Considered (@allsongs) this weekend for reports and photos from the 2012 Moogfest. Check NPR Music next week for ...

Over at the website of the Bob Moog Foundation, electronic music historian Thom Holmes has an interesting post about some lesser-known cinematic uses of the Moog, the pioneering analog synthesizer ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In January 2015, Moog Music, the 60 ...

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 Moog on their ...

Anyone who has ever run their fingers over the keys of a synthesizer, or danced to pounding electronic music in a nightclub, owes a debt to Robert Moog. Moog, one of the early pioneers in electronic ...

Moog Music, Korg and other makers of electronic instruments are reviving some of their behemoth analog designs from the late 1960s and ’70s, with which the un-preprogrammed possibilities for ...