Comments | enoughfood: In the moog

enoughfood

In the moog

Aug 23, 2005 09:57

I don't read any news but the Sunday paper, so I missed the breaking news of Robert Moog's death at his home in Asheville, N.C. Sunday evening. NewsMoog pioneered the analog synthesizer, a modular keyboard descended from the theremin, the world's first purely electronic instrument composed of "two metal rods, controlling pitch and volume, attached ( Read more... )

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the_edin_jerk August 23 2005, 20:13:38 UTC

I was IN Asheville mere weeks ago. Have you seen the movie "Bartleby"? The whole soundtrack features some phat theremin playing.

enoughfood August 24 2005, 01:44:51 UTC

Was it beautiful? I visited the Biltmore Estate there when I was young & fourteen. I haven't seen "Bartleby," but it's added to my list now - to the top, I might add.

alabasterdugong August 23 2005, 20:37:13 UTC

i too am obsessed with thee moog.
i play theremin.

enoughfood August 24 2005, 01:45:47 UTC

Wow - it sounds pretty hard. Is it hard?

alabasterdugong August 24 2005, 20:22:08 UTC

oh, no no i'm sorry... i play the PHOTO theremin. but i assume the radio theremin isn't much harder.