Synthesizer developer & namesake Robert Moog, 71
Posted: Monday, August 22nd, 2005 1:22 pm
Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers opened the door for the musical evolution of electronica, died yesterday at his home in Asheville, North Carolina, at the age of seventy-one. He was diagnosed with brain cancer in April and had undergone chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
Moog developed a childhood interest in the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, after building them with his father. In 1963, he developed the Moog Modular Synthesizer as a Ph.D student in engineering physics at Cornell University. By the end of 1964, R.A. Moog Co. introduced the first commercial modular synthesizer.
Moog received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1970, and was the subject of last year’s documentary, Moog, directed by Hans Fjellestad. … Read full obituary
